Farhana Ibrahim

Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns (eBook, ePUB)

An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an anthropological study located along India's western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts, a region becomes a meaningful place for its inh

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000083972
• Artikelnr.: 60583173

Autorenporträt

Farhana Ibrahim is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her current research project engages with maritime histories and merchant networks in western India, and she has published articles in journals such as Nomadic Peoples, Economic and Political Weekly and Himal South Asian.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Imagining a Region 2. Migration
Memory
and Affect: Counter-Perspectives to Asmita 3. Defining a Border: Religion
Region
and Nation 4. Pastoralists
Islam
and the State: Religion and Settlement of the Border 5. Settlement
Sovereignty
and History 6. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index