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This article explores the three themes of civic nationalism, imperial identities and Punjabi migration by focusing on the life of Sundar Singh, a migrant to Canada who came to prominence in the early 1900s, through his speeches. Sundar Singh employed the idea of equal status of all British subjects in the British Empire to argue for the migration of Sikhs to Canada and other British settler societies and their being treated with respect and fairness on their arrival in their new homes. Although Singh's claim to Britishness was rejected in many sections of Canadian society, it was supported by some white Canadians. The article suggests that British identity of the Empire's Dominions could, in some circumstances, be a force for the inclusion of South Asians. The article also illustrates the way in which developments in India impacted upon those of the diaspora across the British Empire. This idea is developed by demonstrating the importance of the triangular relationship between India, the United Kingdom and Canada as highlighted by the issue of Punjabi migration within the British Empire.
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Although contemporary Manipuri poetry is preoccupied with violence and the politics that has plagued the state, a return to modernist poetry, prominent in the 1970s, reconfigures the discourse surrounding identity formation in Manipur. The essay focuses on the modernist poet Thangjam Ibopishak to study the change in the constitution of identity in a pervasive military culture. It argues that Ibopishak's poetry is an important intervention in our understanding of societies characterised by processes of militarisation, and the victimised subjectivities that emerge from that milieu. His poetry, marked by irony and satire, invents a new poetic idiom to address issues such as military excess, victimhood, censorship and the poet's own position as subject.
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145458
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This paper offers a new reading of Rabindranath Tagore's acclaimed novel Ghare Baire (Home and the World) by looking at it explicitly through the prism of hospitality. Drawing on the critical vocabulary of Jacques Derrida, it frames the central question of the novel as that of taking the risk of offering (un)conditional hospitality, with all its consequences. This involves exploring and tracing the ideological roots of the radical ethical position of the main protagonist, Nikhilesh, who self-consciously allows a guest to overstay his welcome. The novel is read as a paean to hospitality as risk-taking, and therefore to the frightening ordeal of freedom with ambiguous outcomes.
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145459
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A consensus is growing among scholars of modern Indian literature that the thematic development of Hindi, Urdu and Bangla poetry was consistent to a considerable extent. I use the term ‘consistent’ to refer to the transitions between 1900 and 1960 from didacticism to romanticism to modernist realism. The purpose of this article is to build upon this consensus by revealing that as far south as Sri Lanka, Sinhala-language poetry developed along the same trajectory. To bear out this argument, I explore the works of four Sri Lankan poets, analysing the didacticism of Ananda Rajakaruna, the romanticism of P.B. Alwis Perera, and the modernist realism of Siri Gunasinghe and Gunadasa Amarasekera.
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145457
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This essay contextualises the emergence of a document regime which regulated routine travel through the deployment of the India–Pakistan Passport and Visa Scheme in 1952. It suggests that such travel documents were useful for the new Indian state to delineate citizenship and the nationality of migrants and individual travellers from Pakistan. The bureaucratic and legal mediations under the Scheme helped the Indian state to frame itself before its new citizens as the sole certifier of some of their rights as Indians. In contrast, applicants for these documents viewed them as utilitarian, meant to facilitate their travel across the new borders. The contrast and contestation between such different perceptions helps us to understand the continued significance of documentary identities in contemporary India.
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145461
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Political dynasticism in South Asia and elsewhere is extensive, but poorly understood. To investigate the phenomenon, we look at political competition at the regional level in Bangladesh. We argue that mechanisms and tools in the local political culture that give rise to other aspects of South Asian politics also give rise to dynasticism. Networks of political activists, enforcers, businessmen and bureaucrats are crucial to political success. We hypothesise that these networks depend on the heir's ability to embody a vital but informal trust. Political dynasticism is thus more a coincidental than a strategic outcome.
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145466
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The 2014 Lok Sabha elections witnessed a significant shift in the political spectrum of the Bodo Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD) in Assam, with non-Bodos voting en masse for an independent candidate, a former United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militant who was backed by a collective of non-Bodo organisations. Using the elections as a focal point, this paper aims to explore the larger political dynamics, political mobilisation and shifting alliances within a framework of contentious politics and collective action that unfurled during the elections and eventually led to an episode of targeted violence against the Muslim community in BTAD.
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145464
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The aim of this paper is to examine the importance of rice-beer (zao) amongst the Zeme Nagas of Assam. Colonial officials and Christian missionaries brought new ideas into Zeme social and cultural practices, quite different from their own. One way to frame this interaction is to examine the tension between world-views held by indigenous religions and Christianity, and what this tension represents for the Zeme. I aim to demonstrate how the terms ‘religion’ and ‘culture’ can be understood by examining the position of rice-beer in Zeme society. I will show how these debates were influenced by nineteenth-century Victorian interlocutors, and equally how local discourses have appropriated these colonial concepts as a point of leverage for internal social dynamics in contemporary times.
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A number of popular Pakistani films feature rapes and attempted rapes, supporting a rape culture that needs to be problematised. I analyse these films and demonstrate that this gendered form of violence serves multiple functions, providing the audience with gratuitous entertainment, developing the narrative and/or punishing women. These functions, which are by no means unique to Pakistani film, incite, excuse and normalise sexual aggression, so supporting a strong rape culture. I also draw attention to more culturally specific honour-based ideologies in these films and demonstrate how these can also encourage and legitimise rape. This leads to a more holistic understanding of what this local rape culture entails. I show that the mainstream film industry has consistently portrayed this culture and suggest that filmmakers’ allegiance to such narratives has therefore amplified the promotion and reproduction of a rape culture in Pakistani society.
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145462
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The tendency of young men to join violent political organisations is a pertinent issue in the global arena of the social sciences and international policy, with studies of youth mobilisation and violence tending to focus on young marginalised men. This article proposes another view of political mobilisation, youths and violence that takes as its point of departure the centre of political power, namely the emerging elite in Bangladesh and young men engaged in youth politics at Dhaka University. Based on an analysis of mobilisation as processes of individual risk manoeuvring, relational aspirations and organisational incorporation, it argues time and time-use are productive analytical lenses to contextualise individual processes of involvement and bring out the agency of mobilisation.
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Public discourse in India's northeastern state Meghalaya is dominated by issues of tribal identity and the threat of being overwhelmed by outsiders. In the context of national elections, local campaigners have to respond to and navigate between the different requirements of national and regional politics. Election campaigns, understood as a negotiation process during which campaigners act as brokers, provide insights into the narratives and characteristics of politics in Meghalaya. Manifestos, leaflets and large-scale events communicate a statement about organisational strength and a candidate's popularity, and subsequently about the capacity to ultimately deliver to the voter. Aesthetics used during campaigning such as music and clothing styles carry messages about the awareness and closeness of the campaigner to the imagination and needs of the local population. Although the entrance of social media into election campaigning is about to change elections and the role of campaigners in Meghalaya, local campaigners will remain important due to their ability to navigate between different levels of politics and to resolve contradictory campaign messages by drawing on different semiotic registers of campaigning.
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