Contemporary South Asia, Volume 27, Issue 4 (2019)

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Contentious Empowerment: Women, Development and Power in South Asia

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Introduction: contentious women's empowerment in South Asia
Sohela Nazneen, Naomi Hossain & Deepta Chopra
Pages: 457-470
Published online: 28 Nov 2019
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Paid work, unpaid care work and women's empowerment in Nepal
Anweshaa Ghosh & Deepta Chopra
Pages: 471-485
Published online: 11 Nov 2019
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Empowerment mechanisms- employment guarantee, women and Dalits in India
Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Diego Maiorano & Hans Blomkvist
Pages: 486-501
Published online: 28 Nov 2019
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Women in/and trade unions: consciousness, agency, and (im)possibilities of alliances amongst nurses and attendants in Kolkata
Panchali Ray
Pages: 502-515
Published online: 16 Sep 2019
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Rana Plaza, disaster politics, and the empowerment of women garment workers in Bangladesh
Naomi Hossain
Pages: 516-530
Published online: 23 Oct 2019
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Debating empowerment: men’s views of women’s access to work in public spaces in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Miguel Loureiro
Pages: 531-548
Published online: 06 Nov 2019
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Women activists’ strategic use of the courts in Pakistan
Ayesha Khan, Sara Malkani & Zonia Yousuf
Pages: 549-557
Published online: 05 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
India’s State Run Media: Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative
by Sanjay Asthana, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 210 pp., ₹ 695 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-108-48170-0
Tripta Sharma
Pages: 558-559
Published online: 07 Nov 2019
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Landscape, culture, and belonging: writing the history of northeast India
edited by Neeladri Bhattacharya and Joy L. K. Pachuau, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, viii + 343 pp., $99.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-48129-8
Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Pages: 559-560
Published online: 13 Nov 2019
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The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print
by Charu Gupta, Seattle, The University of Washington Press, 2016, xv + 336pp., US$30.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-295-74422-3
Pravati Dalua
Pages: 560-561
Published online: 06 Nov 2019
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Islamic banking in Pakistan: Shariah-compliant finance and the quest to make Pakistan more Islamic
by Feisal Khan, London, Routledge, 2015, xii + 185 pp., US $49.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-77975-3
Fizza Joffrey
Pages: 561-562
Published online: 10 Nov 2019
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Post-Mandal politics in Bihar: changing electoral patterns
by Sanjay Kumar, New Delhi, Sage, 2018, xxviii+252 pp., ₹ 699.00, ISBN 978-9-352-80585-3
Md Irfan
Pages: 562-563
Published online: 10 Nov 2019
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Remnants of a separation: a history of the partition through material memory
by Aanchal Malhotra, New Delhi, Harper Collins, 2015, xv+433 pp., ₹599, ISBN 978-93-5302-295-2
Devapriya Sanyal
Page: 564
Published online: 06 Nov 2019
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Adivasi and the state: subalternity and citizenship in India’s Bhil heartland
by Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 295 pp., £75 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-49653-7
Rahul Ranjan
Pages: 565-566
Published online: 10 Nov 2019
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Religious journeys in India: pilgrims, tourists and travelers
edited by Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge, Albany, SUNY Press, 2018, $90.00 [Hardcover], xiii+323 pp., ISBN 978-1-4384-6603-3
R. Mahalakshmi
Pages: 566-567
Published online: 13 Nov 2019
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Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: an intellectual history
by Tariq Rahman, Boston, De Gruyter, 2018, ix + 315 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-055027-6
Zahra Saffia Réka Uta Máté
Pages: 567-568
Published online: 06 Nov 2019
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Rise of saffron power: reflections on Indian politics
edited by Mujibur Rehman, London, Routledge, 2018, xix + 398 pp., ISBN:978-1-138-89727-4
Subir Rana
Pages: 568-569
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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In the wake of disaster: Islamists, the state and a social contract in Pakistan
by Ayesha Siddiqi, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xiii+186 pp., $ 99.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-47292-0
Saeed Ahmed Rid
Pages: 569-570
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The making and meaning of relationships in Sri Lanka: an ethnography on University students in Colombo
by Mihiri Sirisena, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, € 74,96, ISBN 978-3-319-76335-4
Parul Bhandari
Pages: 571-572
Published online: 06 Nov 2019
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Books available for review
Pages: 573-575
Published online: 28 Nov 2019
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