Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration; Introduction; Map I. The Family and the Life Course; Introduction; 1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India Susan Wadley; 2. Allah Gives Both Boys and Girls Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery; 3. Out Here in Kathmandu: Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban Nepal Mark Liechty; 4. Negotiating Kinship, Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari Costanzo Kapur; 5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb; II. Genders; Introduction; 6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North India Ann Grodzins Gold; 7. Roadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India Susan Seizer; 8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd; 9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda; 10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy; III. Caste, Class and Community; Introduction; 11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System; 12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu City Steven Parish; 13. High and Low Castes in Karani Viramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine; 14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of Dhaka Sabina Faiz Rashid; 15. Anjali's Prospects: Class Mobility in Urban India Sara Dickey; 16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India Ritty Lukose; IV. Practicing Religion; Introduction; 17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian Village Diane Mines; 18. The Feast of Love McKim Marriott; 19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir Kim Gutschow; 20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern Pakistan Magnus Marsden; 21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a Jinn Naveeda Khan; 22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in Hyderabad Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger; V. Nation-making; Introduction; 23. Voices from the Partition Urvashi Butalia; 24. A Day in the Life Laura Ring; 25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred Duty Kalyani Devaki Menon; 26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic Power Bernard Bate; 27. The Good Girls of Sri Lankan Modernity Caitrin Lynch; 28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri Lanka Margaret Trawick; VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora; Introduction; 29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural Life Anand Pandian; 30. Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in Late Twentieth-Century India Purnima Mankekar; 31. A Diaspora Ramayana in Southall Paula Richman; 32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in Translation Kathleen Hall; 33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit Smitha Radhakrishnan; 34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian Americans Kirin Narayan; 35. Unexpected Destinations E. Valentine Daniel References; Contributors; Index

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About the Author

Diane P. Mines is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is author of Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village (IUP, 2005).

Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India and Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (IUP, 2009).

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"Richly informative but accessible and user friendly for classroom use... This excellent volume of essays belongs in many placesoon the shelves of specialists and non-specialists alike." Journal of Asian Studies