Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India

by Veena Das

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This book identifies certain moments in the history of contemporary India. These events concern Partition, sati, minority rights, the Bhopal industrial disaster, the nature of the Indian state, and various sociological issues. Veena Das redescribes these events and their implications within the framework of anthropological knowledge. Her methodologically innovative attempt here is to produce an ethnography of contemporary India which is sensitive...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195640527

ISBN13:9780195640526

Release Date:January 1997

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Asia Cultural History India Language Arts Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Travel

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