Bücher der Reihe Critical Asian Studies

Presents an anthropological study located along India's western border with Pakistan. This book contains arguments that are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat.

This volume eschews programmatic solutions, focusing in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial imperatives and nationalist knowledge, cosmopolitan politics and liberal democracy, and governmental effects and everyday affects.

The essays in this volume complicate the sense of Pakistan as prone to failure. It is recast as a prolonged meditation on the artificiality of the state form, the difficulty of committing to a single nationalist vision, the foreignness that resides within, etc.

Gives an account of the communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. This book presents narrative accounts of the residents of Dharavi on the violence and the procedures of rehabilitation that accompanied the violence. It explores the role language, housing and rehabilitation have on the life of people living with violence.