Roger and Patricia Jeffery are well known for their work on religion and gender in South Asia. In their latest book, a study of the demographic processes of two castes in rural north India, they ask why fertility levels are higher among the Muslim Sheikhs than the Hindu Jats. They conclude that explanations can only partially be attributed to ...
This rich anthropological study contains several interviews with Muslim and Hindu women who live in rural communities of Uttar Pradesh. Their candid narratives illuminate their individual attitudes regarding marriage, family, domestic violence, distribution of labor, fertility, and motherhood. In addition, the authors--a married couple who began ...
Appropriating Gender: Women's Agency, the State, and Politicized Religion in South Asia is a comprehensive collection of essays that examines the role of women in fundamentalist movements, as well as the gender policies of these movements and of the South Asian states in which they operate. Divided into three sections, Part I examines gender, ...
"Degrees Without Freedom?" re-evaluates debates on education, modernity, and social change in contemporary development studies and anthropology. Education is widely imputed with the capacity to transform the prospects of the poor. But in the context of widespread unemployment in rural north India, it is better understood as a contradictory ...
The commonsense understanding of education rests on the assumption that it has a straightforwardly positive value. The original essays in this volume, however, argue that education, as it is imparted in India, is ambiguous in its effects. They address such questions as: How do educational regimes relate to other facets of contemporary Indian ...
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