{"title":"Book review: Sara Rizvi Jafree, Social Policy for Women in Pakistan","authors":"Nasir Iqbal","doi":"10.1177/02627280231218342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231218342","url":null,"abstract":"Sara Rizvi Jafree, Social Policy for Women in Pakistan (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), xxv + 382 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"6 7","pages":"131 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139446700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India","authors":"Vani Krishnan","doi":"10.1177/02627280231218348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231218348","url":null,"abstract":"Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), xiii + 206 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"54 13","pages":"144 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139447169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and its Discontents","authors":"S. Narayana","doi":"10.1177/02627280231218307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231218307","url":null,"abstract":"Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and its Discontents (London: Profile Books, 2022), xiv + 178 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"32 2","pages":"134 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139444988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Simi Mehta, Vibhuti Patel and Satyam Tripathi, Advocating a Feminist Foreign Policy for India","authors":"W. Bhat","doi":"10.1177/02627280231218308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231218308","url":null,"abstract":"Simi Mehta, Vibhuti Patel and Satyam Tripathi, Advocating a Feminist Foreign Policy for India (New Delhi: Impact and Policy Research Institute, 2023), 72 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"2 4","pages":"136 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139445411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Nikhil Govind, The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata","authors":"Sheetala Bhat","doi":"10.1177/02627280231218349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231218349","url":null,"abstract":"Nikhil Govind, The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata (New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2023), 161 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"41 25","pages":"141 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139448131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India in Bengali Travel Writing on Russia in the Twentieth Century: Travelling The World, Writing about Home","authors":"Weronika Rokicka","doi":"10.1177/02627280231215472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231215472","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the discourse on India in Bengali travelogues on Russia/the USSR. In the first half of the twentieth century, Russia attracted a particular type of Indian travellers, politically engaged individuals interested in the ongoing transformations in Russia, to learn potential lessons for India. Later, during the Cold War era, many members of India’s intellectual elite travelled to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Soviet institutions and some wrote their accounts after these visits. A distinctive feature of these travelogues is the strong focus on providing readers with information regarding Soviet social and economic developments, together with frequent comments on the contrasts between the USSR and India. The article demonstrates how Bengali travel narratives on Russia are constructed around similarities and differences between the two countries, but ultimately concentrate on the challenges for India in fields such as education, poverty, agriculture, gender equality and housing. Seven travelogues were selected for this analysis. The earliest, on Revolutionary Russia, is Soumyendranath Tagore’s Biplabð Rå›iy˙å (Tagore, 1930), while the most recent sample is Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Rå›iy˙å Bhramaµ (Gangopadhyay, 2012 [1985]).","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"18 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139010616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pottery in Telangana: Empirical Evidence of Current and Future Challenges","authors":"Harinath Silveru, Laxman Rao Sankineni","doi":"10.1177/02627280231215467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231215467","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents and discusses empirical evidence of the socio-economic status of the Kummari potter community in Telangana to highlight the continued primacy of the traditional caste-based occupation as a livelihood option for many Kummari households. Taking a holistic perspective, the research documents the current challenges faced by the community, covering the entire cycle of pottery-making, including input sourcing, production, adoption of new technology and marketing. The article also identifies core policy interventions that need urgent attention in the form of state support, complemented with collectivisation, technology diffusion and capacity-building of the artisans.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"152 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational Labour Migration and the Renegotiation of Masculinity by Left-Behind Men in Kerala","authors":"Anamika Ajay","doi":"10.1177/02627280231215460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231215460","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores an understudied aspect of women’s transnational labour migration, namely how left-behind men negotiate the changes in their status in the domestic and public spheres when their daughters or wives migrate for work and become primary earners in the family. A case study of Syrian Christians in a village in Central Kerala with a long history of women’s transnational labour migration demonstrates how left-behind men refashion their masculine identities by reasserting their role as family protectors when they lose their traditional role as family providers. The article illustrates how left-behind men employ diverse social and discursive practices in domestic and community spheres to reconstruct their gendered sense of self and resist the social stigma of failed masculinity. It also demonstrates how the Church, which continues to be a dominant institution influencing the personal and political lives of Syrian Christians, has become an arena for left-behind men to reassert their patriarchal status at home and in the community.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"535 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water Governance in Puducherry","authors":"K. G. Dasthagir","doi":"10.1177/02627280231215465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231215465","url":null,"abstract":"This article retraces the emergence of contemporary water governance in Pondicherry/Puducherry as a case study to illustrate how new forms or shades of participatory management strategies have recently been created to address the water crisis in a South Indian locality close to the sea. The article first examines evidence of earlier self-governing institutions, engaging premodern agrarian communities in managing sustainable water resource development. It then contrasts this with how manufactured risks produced in the Anthropocene through modernisation and urbanisation processes created serious local water crises that demanded urgent action and prudent management strategies. The analysis articulates how the resulting new shades of management in the form of private-public partnerships of collective action constitute effective new forms of participatory local water governance.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"1049 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}