Nadeem Hasnain
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The Other Lucknow There are few cities in the world that evoke the same nostalgia among its inhabitants, visitors and historians as Lucknow. Perhaps, Delhi and Calcutta are the only two cities in South Asia on which more has been written. In the case of Lucknow, most of the published scholarship focused on 1857, historical monuments and the Nawabi palace life and culture. This fascination with the Nawabi era is largely responsible for the neglect of various other ...
This is one of the most popular books published on Indian Anthropology. Originally published in English, it is now available in several Indian languages.Beginning with a discussion on the origin and development of anthropology in India, it takes the readers into Indian prehistory. Taking up the issues of social change in India it describes and analyses various concept and theories dealing with social change in India viz. Sanskritization, Westernization, ...
There are more Muslims in South Asia than any other region of the world. Incidentally, but unfortunately, Islam in South Asia has not received its due attention. Its only in recent times that sociologists/social anthropologists have turned their attention to the empirical/field view of Islam and Muslim communities in South Asia. The ‘Textual Islam’ and the ‘Lived Islam’ are not one and the same thing. Thus, it is only Islam in practice or ‘real existing ...
Research on the OBCs in India is a very neglected field. This is first high quality book that presents 14 original case studies of the journey traversed by single Indian OBC communities during the 58 years of post-independence period. Each case study is analyzed by a scholar who has carried out detailed ethnographic field work, possesses incisive insight, and has written authoritatively on the nature of change registered by the selected OBC community. These case ...
Islam and Muslims today, than at any other time, are a matter of great attention throughout the world especially in the west. In the wake of 9/11 the global media, with rare exceptions, is feeding the world with largely prejudiced and negative images of both. The unbalanced approach of the global media can only be described as Islam/Muslim can only be described as Islam/Muslim bashing. Islam and Muslims are not monolithic. The “Lived Islam†has a great ...
This collection of essays grew out of dissatisfaction with the tone and tenor of public discourse on the women's problematic in India, in particular by the feminists leading the women's movement. While this long drawn out debate has been critical of society and the state in general and entrenched culture of patriarchy in particular, it has not directly addressed the basic question: how have some sections of the women's movement itself collaborated with the ...
Tremendous changes have been recorded in the nature and intensity of the problems now being encountered by different segments of women in different socio-economic-cultural locales of the country. A paradigm shift is therefore needed in the approach and methodology empowering them. A vital pre-requisite to do so is to map out the transformed empowerment tasks. However, this is what is lacking in most exercises attempting situation analysis, identification of the ...
There are two ways of trying to understand what Islam is all about. One way of understanding it is by interpreting it theologically or what do the rules say. This is 'Textual Islam' based on 'book view'. The other way is to interpret it historically to know what the Muslims have done in history and by looking at Muslim societies at a given point of time to see how the Muslims 'live' Islam in their everyday life. Like the followers of other religions, Muslims too, ...
This collection of 21 papers is third volume in the three volume series on women's empowerment in India. Contributors include some of the best names in women's studies. This volume assesses the contemporary state of the art of study of women's problematic in India. This assessment is arranged on ten major themes: disaggregating women as a category; women's specific problems; health; education; women, work and workplace; women in new work areas; treatment of the ...