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22 August, 2012

China-Pakistan Strategic Cooperation: Indian Perspectives

By- Swaran Singh

Published in association with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi

This Book is an attempt to collate Indian perspectives on the multifaceted themes and sectors of China-Pakistan strategic cooperation.

China-Pakistan ties have been a major obsession amongst Indian opinion and policy-makers. However, this obsession remains restricted to China’s transfers of sensitive technologies while the essential backdrop that has sustained such a unique ‘axis’ has never been explored with sufficient rigour. Especially, given the secrecy that shrouds these transfers of missiles and nuclear material, technologies and know-how, occasional outbursts in Indian media remains
vulnerable to political populism, emotional outrage and to calculated Western media leaks. These trigger flashes of interest but no substantive follow up debates or dedicated research for evolving India’s policy options. It is this essential gap that this volume tries to fill and generate a serious debate on contours and implications of China–Pakistan relations.

The project locates itself primarily in the new context where the events following 9/11 and the growing India–China and India–Pakistan understanding seems to undermine China–Pakistan axis and looks forward to future challenges. In addition to providing a wealth of information and analysis on this subject of critical importance, this volume aims at shedding populism and bursting several myths that continue to surround Indian debates on China–Pakistan strategic cooperation.

Swaran Singh is Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University (New Delhi) and an Academic Consultant with Cente de Sciences Humaines
(New Delhi). He can be reached at ssingh@mail.jnu.ac.in

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Child Spacing and Reproductive Health in Rural Karnataka, India : From Research to Action

By- Inge Hutter, N.V. Rajeswari, J.S. Hallad and B.M. Ramesh

While quite a lot is known about child spacing and survival chances of children, much less is known about child spacing and women’s health.

The book describes child spacing behaviour of women in rural Karnataka, South India, as embedded in the economic and socio-cultural context in which women live. Adopting a life course perspective, child spacing is related to other events in the reproductive career (first menstruation, marriage) and reproductive health issues such as sexuality and contraceptive use. Women marry early, have their children and then often opt for sterilization. Modern spacing methods are hardly used: women think they have negative effects on their health status which is already low. Women indicate that the most important health problems for women in the villages are related to pregnancy and delivery, white discharge and general weakness. Different cultural schemas can be identified, i.e. those of heating (ushna, kaavu) and cooling (tampu) and pollution and purity, motivating reproductive health behaviour such as during menstruation, the use of the oral pill, the treatment of white discharge. Since young married women are fully dependent upon their husband’s family, the role of the mother-in-law becomes quite important. While men are thought by women to have an important influence on their reproductive health behaviour, men turn out to have hardly any knowledge about these reproductive health issues.

The research has provided evidence for the formulation of a health educational campaign, called Spandana, which is a collaboration of the researchers with FPAI Dharwad. The
translation of research into action is also described in this very timely volume.

Inge Hutter, demographer and anthropologist, is Professor of Demography at the Population Research Centre, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Since the 1990s she has conducted research on Indian reproductive health issues.

N.Y. Rajeswari, demographer, was Research Officer at J.S.S. Institute of Economic Research, Dharwad, at time of the research. Now she works at the Indian Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Hyderabad.

Jyothi S. Hallad, a postgraduate in child development, is Research Assistant at the J.S.S.
Institute of Economic Research, Dharwad, Kamataka, since 1996. She conducts research on reproductive health issues.

B.M. Ramesh, demographer and psychologist, was Director of IER at time of the present research. Currently he is Director Monitoring and Evaluation, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore.

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Bhakti in Current Research, 2001-2003: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Early Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, Heidelberg, 23-26 July 2003

By- Monika Horstmann (ed)

The present volume forms the ninth in a series of proceedings of the triennial International Conference on Early Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages which was held in Heidelberg, Germany in 2003. The conference covered a wide range of topics relating to the Bhakti tradition. The volume unites twenty contributions which reflect original research carried out by their authors in the period between 2001 and 2003.

For all their diversity, not a few of the articles bring to mind that the term Bhakti is a locus where various concepts and often composite religious identities meet. As the focus of the
conference was on the northern vernacular traditions, with no Sanskrit and little Dravidian material being discussed, the contributions represent facets of a broad South Asian religious and literary complex, of which Indic and Islamicate traditions as well as a whole gamut of literary languages is consitutive.

The contributions address literary genres and historiography, manuscriptology, painting, hagiography, various sects, musical practice as related to Bhakti authors and sects, and the interface of Yoga and the Indic and Islamicate traditions, respectively.

An indispensable volume for scholars of South Asian religion and culture.

Monika Horstmann (Boehm-Tettelbach) is a retired professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the South Asia Institute, Universtiy of Heidelberg, Germany.

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Rescuing the Future: Bequeathed Misperceptions in International Relations

By- Jagat S. Mehta

The book arose out of the outrage expressed by Senator D.P. Moynihan at the author’s statement that the ‘Cold War was the greatest intellectual failure of history’. In a reaction, Prof. Stephen Cohen renewed his suggestion to compile the author’s occasional writings. Stephen Cohen made the selection and grouped them into the following five parts: ‘With Nehru’, ‘The Cold War and its Shadow’, ‘Fresh Water Diplomacy’, ‘Diplomacy between Unequal and Equal Neighbours’ and ‘Looking Ahead’.

On the express suggestion of J.N. Dixit, the volume also includes a letter the author wrote on his book War and Peace on India’s relations with Pakistan. The three-part essay on Non-proliferation was written at different times, but the last one after the US Congress approved the Bush-Singh Agreement on Civil Nuclear Cooperation.

What binds these essays, written over twenty-five years, is that the consequence of technological gallop was not contemporaneously comprehended. Big countries and small aggravated the handicaps for two-thirds of mankind by their misperceptions. The author argues that in a nuclear world, professional diplomacy demands a more consistent adherence to the vision of a socially just and peaceful world. The old arrogance of size and conventional or nuclear military superiority has lost the old coercive capability. In the twenty-first century, democracy and transparent accountability has to supplement traditional means of security.

Jagat S. Mehta was Foreign Secretary, Government of India, during 1976-9 appointed at a comparative young age of 53.

After retirement, his primary interest has been in voluntarism for social and economic development. However he has woven these with spells in academia. He was an Associate at Harvard Centre for International Affairs in 1980, Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington in 1981 and appointed Tom Slick Distinguished Professor of World Peace at Austin (Texas) in 1983. His predecessor in this chair included Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal.

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Reconstructing Identities: Tribes, Agro-pastoralists and Environment in Western India

By- Nandini Sinha Kapur

This monograph brings together essays on the marginal and elite social groups from early medieval times to the colonial period. It looks at tribal and agro-pastoral groups in Gujarat and Rajasthan such as the Bhils, Meenas and Bishnois in interactions with rural societies
and their participation in the processes of state formation; their changing identities and self-
perceptions, control of natural resources, environmental changes in the context of forests, agricultural expansion and water resources.

Tribe-societal-state interactions meant long drawn-out negotiatins involving alliances and
conflicts leading to gradual marginalization of tribal groups as limited ‘peasantization’ and ‘integration’ went on. As a result, marginal communities reconstructed identities, made shifts in self-perceptions through adaptations from the Rajput/Brahmanical world and contested histories with ruling elite in the late medieval and early colonial times.

The case studies of southern Rajasthan reveal that construction of water works in Jaisalmer area and control over environmental resources helped rural and ruling elite in maintaining a distinction for themselves in both early and late medieval times. On the other hand, common folk of the Thar desert, the Bishnoi agro-pastoralists carved out a special niche for themselves as ‘Conservationists’ by preaching a popular religion and socio-economic ethos of preserving the natural resources in an ecology of ‘uncertainty’.

Nandini Sinha Kapur is Reader in History at PGDAV College, University of Delhi and has been associated with the postgraduate teaching of Ancient Indian History in University of Delhi. A former Homi Bhabha Fellow and a recipient of fellowships in India and abroad, she has published widely both nationally and internationally.

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Popular Religion and Ascetic Practices: New Studies on Mahim’a Dharma

By- Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Johannes Beltz (eds)

Studies in Orissan Society, Culture and History Series 8

This volume brings together new research by Indian and German scholars on Mahima Dharma of Orissa. It combines anthropological insights, historical research and textual analyses to offer a wide variety of perspectives on this popular yet relatively unknown religion: perspectives which have taken shape in field experience in Orissa and research in Germany.

Starting with an essay by Anncharlott Eschmann, whose pioneering work in the last century had kindled academic interest in the Dharma, this book blends current investigations of
different hues and textures in order to provide a nuanced and detailed account of this
multi-dimensional religious order in the different phases of its evolution.

Apart from diverse assessments of the life and works of the radical poet Bhima Bhoi, it also include translations from his important works of Bhima Bhoi and Biswanath Baba, crucial records of the archives and unpublished letters and photos of Eschmann. Needless to say, this volume will cater to a readership interested in the anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history of religions but also to people who are attached to the land of Orissa, its rich culture and the Dharma itself.

Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.

Johannes Beltz is Curator of Indian art at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition he teaches Hinduism and Buddhism at the University of Orissa; Religion; India;

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Pied Pipers in North-East India: Bamboo-Flowers, Rat-famine and the Politics of Philanthropy (1881-2007)

By- Sajal Nag

This book is about an amazing ecological phenomenon known as bamboo flowering. The hill state of Mizoram (India) is covered by a thick growth of two particular species of bamboo which flower and fruit approximately every fifty and thirty years. The bamboo fruits which are a delicacy for the wild rats induce excessive breeding in them. Once these millions of hungry rats finish eating the fruits, they invade human habitat and devour their harvest causing extreme food scarcity leading to famine. In the recorded history of Mizo hills, this calamity is knows to have occurred in 1737, 1767, 1827, 1861, 1881, 1911, 1931, 1959, 1977 and the predicted famine of 2007 is already ravaging the hills.

Earlier the British used this calamity to subdue the valiant Mizos, Christian Missionaries to engage in the politics of humanitarianism and the Mizos themselves to whip up nationalist sentiments. The 1959 famine is particularly remembered as it sparked off the 20-year
long insurgency in Mizoram. The post-colonial government both at the state and centre are currently engaged in an interesting competition of philanthropy to mitigate the current
famine. This book narrates the politics of colonial, evangelical, nationalist and post-colonial state around an environmental catastrophe.

Sajal Nag teaches Modern and Contemporary History in Assam Central University, Silchar.
A Commonwealth Fellow, he is an acknowledged authroity on the tribal encounter with
colonialism, politics of nationalism in general and north-east India in particular.

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Periphery and Centre: Studies in Orissan History, Religion and Anthropology

By- Georg Pfeffer (ed.)

Studies in Orissan Society, Culture and History Series 7

The second Orissa Research Project presents the eastern province as a multi-centred cultural
complex. In an interdisciplinary effort this historical study covers the so-called iron-age in western Orissa and questions the established foundation date of one of the major coastal temples. Conditions of early colonialism are exemplified by a report on a typical road construction, just as popular protest movements of that phase, as well as the ambivalent position of their leaders and the issue of conversions to Christianity are examined.

The critical Orissan politico-religious controversies over independence are presented by the visions of the Maharaja of Parlakimedi. Indological contributions indicate that the contemporary debate on ‘animal sacrifice’ has a long history. Just as the popular religious movements against Brahmanism, introduced here by two accounts of rather different peasant and tribal versions of the Orissan Mahima Dharma religion, are a contemporary manifestation of similar dissent in the past.

The empirical anthropological studies reflect the rather unique concepts of illness among the Rona, the category of the person, as created by the application of sacrificial food among the Gadaba, and the AghriÁ ideas on death. These three articles may lead to the first comprehensive monographs on these important communities of the tribal zone. The issue of a tribal status is ambiguous, since the principals themselves, as well as external observers, tend to join
questions of administrative advantages with status ascription in acephalous political systems and the implications of plough cultivation. Postcolonial ‘modernization’, as described in another article on a new power plant in the tribal area, looks at how it has completely excluded the indigenous people. Finally questions of anthropological method are raised in articles on Kondh social structure, on the Goddess in southern Orissa, and on the question of values in different social contexts.

Georg Pfeffer is Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Ethnologie) at the Free University of Berlin.

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People of the Jangal: Reformulating Identities and Adapations in Crisis

By- Marine Carrin and Harald Tambs-Lyche (eds.)

Globalization processes link centres of power and culture all over the world. But these are surrounded by peripheries, whose integration in the global paradigm is neither an inevitable nor an automatic process, as a naïve perception might lead us to believe. In South Asia, such peripheries seem a long way from the cosmopolitanism of Bomaby or Bangalore, and the crisis is hardly the same to the ecologist statesman and the herdsman looking for pasture. Societies in the South Asian wilderness—jangal—are closely tied to the environment but peripheral to systems of power. For them, the landscape is symbolically charged, and the meaning with which natural and social surroundings are invested tends to produce an identification as against others, expressed in terms of ethnicity. Changes at the symbolic level imply a danger of losing identity.

The peripheral groups studied in this volume are the Santals, the Rona, the Bondo, the Pengs of Orissa, the Jadopatias of Bengal, the Kulava of Kerala and the Todas of Nilgiri among others.

It is in the periphery that confrontations between development projects, conservation efforts, and local populations are most marked. The contributors deal with various peripheries, faced with intrusion by more powerful groups, as well as by environmental crisis. But the responses are various, as the authors of this volume show.

Contributors to this landmark volume include Georg Pfeffer, Peter B. Andersen, Gunnel Cederlöff, Deepak Kumar Behera and Srikant Patel among many others.

Marine Carrin is Director of Research, CNRS at the LISST, Centre of Anthropology, Toulouse, France. She has worked for many years on the Santals and is currently working on the bhuta cults and other aspects of religion and society in South Canara, India.

Harald Tambs-Lyche is professor of social anthropology at the University of Picardie—Jules Verne, Amiens, France. He is currently working on a monograph on the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins of South Canara, India.

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Of Fibre and Loom: The Indian Tradition

By- Lotika Varadarajan and Krishna Amin-Patel

Published in association with National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

Of Fibre and Loom: The Indian Tradition, is the product of collaborative work between a designer-weaver and an ethno-historian. It is through this joint research that the full range and depth of the textile tradition of the subcontinent is brought to view. Their mastery over the tools of technology and the discipline of ethno-history has created a synergy, which has
allowed the development of a unique focus in the investigations highlighting little known facts relating to the shaping of Indian sensibility.

The fibres covered include all varieties of silk, cotton in different counts, bast fibres such as ramie and jute as also animal fibres such as goat hair, camel hair and wool. The book begins with an exploration of the different kinds of looms, weaving mechanisms, the technology and processes involved before and after weaving, found in India. It then proceeds to trace the gradual refinements effected in loom technology, emphasizing the changes that were brought about in the weaves, weave structure and pattern.

The book also provides a detailed analysis of the products of the loom against a historical background of the various types of clothing and clothing accessories worn by men and women. The work closely knits the connections between loom technology, the variety of fibres used, the end product and the end user. This approach is bound to excite the interest both of ethnographers as well as textile historians. The loom is analysed as a croos-cultural artefact.

This necessarily leads to an examination of the correlations in the interfacings between
ecology, language and culture. From the wool weaving traditions of Kashmir, Kullu and Kinnaur to the Deccan horizons of Kanchipuram silks and from the Paithani repertoire to the Jamdani woven on the Yongkham loom of Manipur, this book is encyclopaedic in range. Illustrated with over 300 original photographs and line drawings of the loom and products, the book constitues a unique study and is the only one of its kind so far published. Apart from its appeal to academia, the work will also prove useful to the trade, drawing the attention of the exportr no less than the collector.

Lotika Varadarajan is an art and cultural historian and author of international repute with a varied background, all of which finds expression in her current work. Having spent her early years imbibing tribal culture in Assam, she pursued her higher studies at the Universities of Delhi and Bombay, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK. She has been associated with the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad and National Institute of Science Technolog and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi. Widely travelled both within the country and outside, she has
number of articles and books to her credit.

Design Consultant and design educator, Krishna Amin-Patel is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India. Having specialised in Textile Design, she joined and served as a full-time faculty member at NID from 1980-1999. As a design consultant, she has an enviable record of having been a member of creative design teams, led them and worked in areas of designing for the Indian market as well as for export. Currently residing in the USA, she has completed her Master of Fine Arts from the Arizona State University in 2002. She has in addition been a member of many important committees and visiting faculty at the Nottingham Polytechnic, UK, at Rhode Island School of Design, Penland School of Crafts, USA.

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Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab: The Singh Sabha, Arya Sabha and Ahmadiyahs

Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab: The Singh Sabha, Arya Sabha and Ahmadiyahs

By- Bob van der Linden

After its annexation in 1849, the Punjab became the most important stragegic and agricultural province of British India. Within a few decades, much changed in the region, including the intellectural horizons of the Punjabi elite. The monograph tells the comparative socio-intellectual history of the Singh Sabha (Sikh), Arya Samaj (Hindu) and Ahmadiyah (Muslim) voluntary reform movements.

As a new contribution to the field, the term ‘moral languages’ is introduced to discuss the reformers’ redefined traditions that emerged in response to Western reason and Christianity. Underwriting the Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyah moral languages was the fundamental process of strengthening doctrine, conduct, and ritual through a dialogic process in which readings of the traditional literature (often as interpreted by European Orientalist scholars) were combined with an understanding that frequently invoked the authority of science.

In particular this volume argues that the secular-religious binary opposition, which has been so dominantly in existence since the European Enlightenment, hides more than it shows.
Significant to the social consciousness of the Punjabi reformers was the partial overlap with the British civilizing mission’s underlying notion of improvement. The term moral languages
emphasizes that since the nineteenth-century religion is nothing more than morality motivated and spread through modern institutions and practices. Hence, the Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyah moral languages are discussed in term of modern traditions based on rational knowledge and practices that became vital to the struggle for authority and status in the context of an emergent liberal public sphere and processes of state formation.

This timely book will be of great interest to scholars of British Punjab, South Asian colonial history and comparative religion.

Bob van der Linden (Ph.D., Amsterdam University, 2004) is a modern South Asia historian. He has recently published on the relationship between music and empire in Britain and
India.

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Modern Kannada Grammar

By- S.N. Sridhar

Kannada, one of the major languages of the Dravidian family, is spoken by over 40 million people, mainly in the state of Karnataka, South India, where it is the official language. It is one of the twenty-two languages recognized by the Indian Constitution. It has a rich literary tradtion going back to the ninth century, and exhibits a complex pattern of sociolinguistic and stylistic variation, marked, in part, by a thorough assimilation of Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit, Prakrit. Hindi-Urdu, etc.) and more recently, English elements.

The present descriptive grammar gives a detailed and sophisticated account of the standard language, drawing on the insights of traditional structuralist, and generative linguists, and on the author’s own extensive research. Keeping the needs of both the theoretician and the descriptivist in mind, the work gives a lucid explicit and in many cases original account of
the major and minor structures of the language in syntax, morphology, and phonology.
A valuable feature of this grammar is the author’s consistent attempt to relate formal and functional aspects of the language. Although the variety described is the standard literary variety (because of its greater morphological transparency), the forms of the colloquial
varieties are continuously referred to, and the examples convey the flavour of spoken idiomatic Kannada. With its descriptive rigour, range of phenomena covered, wealth of examples,
and ethnographic insights, this volume is the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative description of modern Kannada to date.

The book will interest students and researchers in the areas of linguistic theory, descriptive linguistics, language typology, comparative/contrastive linguistics, language contact and convergence, and South Asian linguistics as well as translation and Kannada language and literary studies.

S.N. Sridhar is Professor of Linguistics and India Studies and Director of the Center for India Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has also served as Founding Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York. Stony Brook. He received B.A. (Honors) and M.A. degrees in English Literature and Linguistics from Bangalore University and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Sridhar has conducted extensive research in bilingualism (language contact and convergence), sociolinguistics (code-switching, code-mixing, language modernization, language spread), second language acquisition in non-native settings, structure and functions of India English and other World English’s, teaching English as a second language, descriptive
linguistics (reference grammar of Kannada), theoretical linguistics (syntax of dative subjects, morphology of agglutination, level ordering, productivity), psycholinguistics (cross-linguistic experimental study of cognitive universals of sentence production), applied linguistics
(scope and relation to linguistic theory), and history of linguistics (contributions of the Indian grammatical tradition to linguistic theory).