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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on Transliteration | |
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| Map | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Family and the Life Course | |
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| Introduction | |
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| One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India | |
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| Allah Gives Both Boys and Girls | |
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| �Out Here in Kathmandu�: Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban Nepal | |
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| Rethinking Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in an Indian Call Center | |
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| Love and Aging in Bengali Families | |
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| Genders | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North India | |
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| Roadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India | |
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| Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux | |
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| Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story | |
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| Crossing �Lines� of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India | |
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| Caste, Class, and Community | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's | |
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| God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu City | |
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| High and Low Castes in Karani | |
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| Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of Dhaka | |
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| Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban India | |
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| Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India | |
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| Practicing Religion | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Hindu Gods in a South Indian Village | |
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| The Feast of Love | |
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| The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir | |
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| Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern Pakistan | |
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| In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter, and a Jinn | |
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| Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in Hyderabad | |
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| Nation-Making | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Voices from the Partition | |
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| A Day in the Life | |
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| Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred Duty | |
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| Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic Power | |
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| Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan Garment Workers | |
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| Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri Lanka | |
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| Globalization, Public Culture, and the South Asian Diaspora | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural Life | |
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| Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century India | |
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| A Diaspora Ramayana in Southall | |
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| British Sikh Lives, Lived in Translation | |
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| Examining the �Global� Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit | |
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| Placing Lives through Stories: Second-Generation South Asian Americans | |
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| Unexpected Destinations | |
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| List of References | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Index | |