Contemporary South Asia, Volume 24, Issue 4 (2016)

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Special Issue on Post-War Sri Lanka: State, Capital, Labour and the Politics of Reconciliation Guest Editor: Kanchana Ruwanpura

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 349-350
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Introduction
Post-war Sri Lanka: state, capital and labour, and the politics of reconciliation
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
Pages: 351-359
Published online: 10 Oct 2016
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Power, everyday control, and emerging resistance in Sri Lanka's plantations
Christopher Neubert
Pages: 360-373
Published online: 09 Dec 2015
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How bodies matter: working-class women’s theater in a time of war
Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham
Pages: 374-386
Published online: 10 Oct 2016
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The subject of return: land and livelihood struggles for place and citizenship
Cynthia Caron
Pages: 387-399
Published online: 14 Dec 2015
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Visions of philanthronationalism: the (in)equities of corporate good governance in Sri Lanka
Tom Widger
Pages: 400-415
Published online: 22 Aug 2016
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Collaboration, suspicion and traitors: an exploratory study of intra-community relations in post-war Northern Sri Lanka
Ambika Satkunanathan
Pages: 416-428
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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From smokestacks to luxury condos: the housing rights struggle of the millworkers of Mayura Place, Colombo
Vijay Kumar Nagaraj
Pages: 429-443
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Book Forum

Introduction
To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum by Nathaniel Roberts
John Zavos & Jacob Copeman
Page: 444
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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An intricate anthropology of care
David Mosse
Pages: 445-447
Published online: 12 Oct 2016
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Conversion beyond “Rice Christians”
Naomi Haynes
Pages: 448-450
Published online: 10 Oct 2016
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Caste and class and the urban poor
John Harriss
Pages: 451-453
Published online: 10 Oct 2016
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Recasting the self
Ania Loomba
Pages: 454-457
Published online: 19 Oct 2016
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To Be Cared For Book Forum: a response from the author
Nathaniel Roberts
Pages: 458-461
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Book reviews

Book Review
Pipe politics, contested waters: embedded infrastructures of millennial Mumbai
Tanya Matthan
Pages: 462-463
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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On their watch: mass violence and state apathy in India
Gemma Scott
Pages: 463-464
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Inclusiveness in India: a strategy for growth and equality
Deepak K. Mishra
Pages: 464-466
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Hinduism and the ethics of warfare in South Asia: from antiquity to the present
Muzaffar Hussain
Pages: 466-468
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Borderland city in New India: frontier to gateway
Sahana Ghosh
Pages: 468-470
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Leprosy and a life in South India: journeys with a Tamil Brahmin
Michele Friedner
Pages: 470-471
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Autobiography of an archive: a scholar’s passage to India
Swati Mantri
Pages: 471-472
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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Books available for review

Books Received
Books available for review
Jacob Copeman
Pages: 473-474
Published online: 23 Feb 2017
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