Contemporary South Asia, Volume 28, Issue 4 (2020)

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Special Issue: Calcutta Characters

Introduction

Introduction
Introduction: Calcutta characters
James Bradbury & Atreyee Sen
Pages: 427-433
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Aparajita and Nishith Chetana: the city’s contested fabric
Srila Roy & Debanuj DasGupta
Pages: 434-445
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Misters Mukharji and Kathotia: the economies of the city
Martin Beattie & Stefan Ecks
Pages: 446-458
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Nirmala and Sonia: the city through embodiment
Soumi Dey, Tanushree Shaw & Anindita Sengupta
Pages: 459-471
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Shyamoli and the unknown male: the city’s violent margins
Kabita Chakraborty & Debarati Sen
Pages: 472-484
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Buddha and Nilima: the city after communism
Sohini Kar & James Bradbury
Pages: 485-497
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Prahlad and Shanta: the city’s madness
Malini Sur & Atreyee Sen
Pages: 498-510
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Joyraj and Debanuj: queer(y)ing the city
Paul Boyce & Rohit K. Dasgupta
Pages: 511-523
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Afterword: a forgotten individual, a forgotten milieu
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Pages: 524-525
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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Book Reviews

Book Review
How India became territorial: foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics
by Itty Abraham, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014, xviii + 217 pp., $ 25, ISBN 978-1-503-60841-2
Silvia Tieri
Pages: 526-527
Published online: 08 Nov 2020
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Limits of bargaining: capital, labour and the state in contemporary India
by Achin Chakraborty, Subhanil Chowdhary, Suparna Banerjee and Zaad Mahmood, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xii + 142pp., ₹ 459.00, ISBN 978-1-108-67927-5
Akhil Alha
Pages: 527-528
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Sensitive space: fragmented territory at the India–Bangladesh border
by Janson Cons, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2016, xiii+200 pp., ISBN 978-0-295-74424-7
Chandra Moni Bhattarai
Pages: 528-529
Published online: 12 Nov 2020
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Neoliberalism and the transforming left in India: a contradictory manifesto
by Ritanjan Das, Abingdon, Routledge, 2018, 228 pp., £125.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-73229-2
Nirupam Hazra
Pages: 529-530
Published online: 23 Nov 2020
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Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition: branding the potters of Kolkata
by Geir Heierstad, London, Anthem Press, 2017, xvi+ 219 pp., £70.00/$115.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-78308-516-3
Ayan Guha
Pages: 530-531
Published online: 08 Nov 2020
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Faith, gender, and activism in the Punjab conflict: the wheat fields still whisper
by Mallika Kaur, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xxi + 304 pp., $34.99 (Paperback), ISBN 978-3-030-24673-0
Dipin Kaur
Pages: 532-533
Published online: 16 Nov 2020
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Book Review
South Asian governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings
edited by Stephen Legg and Deana Heath, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, vii + 269pp., ISBN 978-1-108-42851-4
Mary Ann Chacko
Pages: 533-534
Published online: 20 Nov 2020
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Book Review
The quotidian revolution: vernacularization, religion, and the premodern public sphere in India
by Christian Lee Novetzke, New York, Columbia University Press, 2016, 432 pp., ₹ 5,464 (Hardback) ISBN: 978-0-231-17580-7
Parul Priya & Anurag Kumar
Pages: 534-535
Published online: 10 Nov 2020
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Jugaad time: ecologies of everyday hacking in India
by Amit S. Rai, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2019, xviii + 208 pp., $ 25.95, ISBN 978-1-478-00146-1
Leya Mathew
Pages: 535-536
Published online: 06 Nov 2020
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Independence & accountability of the Indian higher judiciary
by Arghya Sengupta, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xviii + 317 pp., ₹ 795 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-1-108-48565-4
Atharva Sontakke
Pages: 537-538
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Books Available for Review
Pages: 539-540
Published online: 20 Jan 2021
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