Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“helene basu”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “helene basu”
Skip side bar filters

  • Journeys and Dwellings

    Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia

    by Helen Basu ...
    This collection of essays makes a significant and innovative contribution to the emerging field of Indian Ocean Studies. New perspectives come into view that highlight movement and exchange across borders, travelling actors, cultures and faiths as well as processes of cultural re-localisation, mixture and assimilation. While these processes are more often associated with late twentieth-century ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Law of Possession

    Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State

    Edited by William S. Sax, Helene Basu ...
    Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings give evidence through human oracles, spirits possess their human victims and are ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Embodying Charisma

    Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

    Edited by Helene Basu, Pnina Werbner ...
    The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers.This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and ... Read more

    Was $73.99 USD Now $65.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Memories and Movements

    Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch, Gujarat

    by Rita Kothari ...
    Situated in northern Kutch in Gujarat, the Banni grasslands lie on the border dividing India and Pakistan. It is home to diverse communities; while Muslim pastoralists form the majority, one also finds Dalit Hindus, and a community that is neither Hindu nor Muslim. Banni’s people, have for centuries, moved freely between Sindh (Pakistan) and Kutch (India)—a reason why, perhaps, the Indo-Pak border ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Embedded Muslim Communities in India

    Edited by Vinod K. Jairath ...
    This volume approaches the study of Muslim societies through an evolutionary lens, challenging Islamic traditions, identities, communities, beliefs, practices and ideologies as static, frozen or unchangeable. It assumes that there is neither a monolithic, essential or authentic Islam, nor a homogeneous Muslim community. Similarly, there are no fixed binary oppositions such as between the ulama and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Minority Nationalisms in South Asia

    Edited by Tanweer Fazal ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region’s major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority groups intent on preserving what they see as the pristine purity of their own cultural inheritance.This ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Spirals of Contention

    Why India was Partitioned in 1947

    by Satish Saberwal ...
    This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a self-aggravating momentum. The book moves back and forth between evidence and general, or theoretical, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Varieties of Secularism in Asia

    Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual

    Edited by Nils Ole Bubandt, Martijn Van Beek ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of secularism/secularity and examine concrete ethnographic cases in order to further the theoretical ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Monsoon

    The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, Pakistan, China, ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions

    Edited by John R. Hinnells ...
    Comprehensive, informative and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of leading international scholars, and is the definitive guide to the religious belief systems and practices of the world today. This in-depth survey of active religions has now been fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship. It explains the ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • A Concise History of Modern India

    by Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

    Remembering 1971

    by Yasmin Saikia ...
    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD