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Above Ground
Author_Farhana Ibrahim
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borderland anthropology
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Changing State Regimes
Colonial Administration
communal conflict studies
Contemporary religious nationalism
Cultural system
Deltaic Regions
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Ghulam Shah
Hindu Nationalist
Hindu Nationalist Ideology
Indulal Yagnik
Islamic Reform
Islamisation
Isolated Backwater
Jatt Women
Latt Er
Mainland Gujarat
migration and memory research
Muslim Pastoralists
Nomadic Pastoral Populations
pastoralist communities Gujarat
Princely State
Prosopis Juliflora
qualitative ethnographic methods
religious nationalism India
Saint Worship
Scheduled Castes
state formation ethnography western India
Swaminarayan Hinduism
Urs Celebration
Vegetarianism
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367176266
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 inhabi
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.
