South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 5 (2019)

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South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 5 (2019)

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The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India
Arun Kumar
Pages: 823-844
Published online: 29 Sep 2019
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The Problem Without a Name: Comments on Cultural Difference (Racism) in India
Papori Bora
Pages: 845-860
Published online: 24 Sep 2019
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Cow Politics: Spatial Shifts in the Location of Slaughterhouses in Mumbai City
Shireen Mirza
Pages: 861-879
Published online: 20 Aug 2019
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Special Section: Social and Political Transformation in Nepal: Exploring the Relational Nature of the State

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Towards a Relational Approach to the State: Understanding Social and Political Transformation in Nepal
Uma Pradhan & Karen Valentin
Pages: 880-885
Published online: 24 Sep 2019
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The Material Politics of Citizenship: Struggles over Resources, Authority and Belonging in the New Federal Republic of Nepal
Andrea J. Nightingale, Lutgart Lenaerts, Ankita Shrestha, Pema Norbu Lama ‘Tsumpa’ & Hemant R. Ojha
Pages: 886-902
Published online: 28 Aug 2019
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Value Chains and Development Brokers: Engineering Inclusive Agricultural Markets in Jumla, Nepal
Elsie Lewison
Pages: 903-919
Published online: 22 Aug 2019
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Corruption as a Diagnostic of Power: Navigating the Blurred Boundaries of the Relational State
Katharine N. Rankin, Pushpa Hamal, Elsie Lewison & Tulasi Sharan Sigdel
Pages: 920-936
Published online: 10 Sep 2019
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Multi-Ethnic Citizens in a Multi-Ethnic State: Constructing State–Citizen Relations Through ‘Difference’ in the Adivasi Janajati Scholarship Programmes in Nepal
Uma Pradhan
Pages: 937-953
Published online: 28 Aug 2019
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Where Interests Collided: Examining the Conflictual Relationship between the Nepali State and Its Citizens through the History of Public Libraries
Lokranjan Parajuli
Pages: 954-970
Published online: 01 Sep 2019
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Making ‘Green Citizens’ in Ilam: Development and Transformation in East Nepal
Mona Chettri
Pages: 971-987
Published online: 15 Sep 2019
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The Multiple Faces of the State: Encounters between the State and Squatters in Kathmandu
Karen Valentin
Pages: 988-1002
Published online: 19 Aug 2019
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Book Review
Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
by Lucinda Ramberg, Durham, NC/London, Duke University Press, 2014, 296 pp., 25 illus., US$26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-5724-7
Meena Khandelwal
Pages: 1003-1004
Published online: 29 Sep 2019
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Review Essay: Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will
John Hutnyk
Pages: 1005-1012
Published online: 23 Sep 2019
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