Contemporary South Asia, Volume 29, Issue 1 (2021)

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Special Issue: Kinship as Fiction: Exploring the Dynamism of Intimate Relationships in India

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Kinship as fiction: exploring the dynamism of intimate relationships in South Asia
Yoko Taguchi & Anindita Majumdar
Pages: 1-9
Published online: 11 Mar 2021
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Imagined and unimagined relatedness: a child of ‘one’s own’ in third-party reproduction in India
Mizuho Matsuo
Pages: 10-23
Published online: 12 Feb 2021
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Remembering deceased kin through assisted conception in India
Anindita Majumdar
Pages: 24-36
Published online: 09 Feb 2021
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Fiction in the making of intimacy in old age: a case from Sri Lanka
Sae Nakamura
Pages: 37-49
Published online: 17 Feb 2021
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The fiction of ‘fluid nuclear units’: rearticulating relations through domestic work in Mumbai
Yoko Taguchi
Pages: 50-65
Published online: 05 Feb 2021
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Reimagining familial relationships: intimate networks and kinship practices in Odisha, India
Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe
Pages: 66-80
Published online: 12 Feb 2021
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Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families
Ester Gallo
Pages: 81-96
Published online: 09 Feb 2021
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Identifying ‘authorized users’, identifying kin: negotiating relational worlds through Geographical Indications registration
Chandan Bose
Pages: 97-110
Published online: 09 Feb 2021
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rethinking conflict at the margins: dalits and borderland Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir
by Mohita Bhatia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 222pp., ISBN 978-1-108-83602-9
Andrew Thangasamy
Pages: 111-112
Published online: 09 Feb 2021
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I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today
by Partha Chatterjee, New York, Columbia University Press, 2020, 185 pp., $25.00 (paperback), $75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-231-19548-5
Avilasha Ghosh
Pages: 112-113
Published online: 12 Feb 2021
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History and collective memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
by Sumit Guha, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019, xiii + 240 pp., $30.00, ISBN 978-0-295-74621-0
Mirza Jaffer Abid
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 09 Feb 2021
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Legalizing sex: sexual minorities, AIDS, and citizenship in India
by Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, New York, New York University Press, 2020, 199 pp., ISBN 978-1-4798-2636-0
Chetna Sharma
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 12 Feb 2021
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Planning in the 20th century and beyond: India’s Planning Commission and the NITI Aayog
edited by Santosh Mehrotra and Sylvie Guichard, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xix+333 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-49462-5
Rianka Roy
Pages: 115-116
Published online: 09 Feb 2021
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Unruly figures: Queerness, sex work, and the politics of sexuality in Kerala
by Navaneetha Mokkil, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2019, xii +270 pp., ₹ 2767, ISBN 978-0-295-74557-2
Sudarshan R. Kottai
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 23 Feb 2021
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Nightmarch: among India’s revolutionary guerrillas
by Alpa Shah, London, Hurst, 2018, xxii+320 pp., ISBN 978-1-84904-990-0
Jostein Jakobsen
Pages: 118-119
Published online: 21 Feb 2021
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The caste of merit: engineering education in India
by Ajantha Subramanian, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2019, x + 374 pp., $49.95 • £39.95, ISBN: 978-0-674-98788-3
Vaibhav Iype Parel
Pages: 119-120
Published online: 09 Feb 2021
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Books Available for Review
Pages: 121-122
Published online: 11 Mar 2021
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