Volume 24:2 (2004)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume 24 | No. 2 | 2004

Table of Contents

Contentions

Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud: Inside Darfur: Ethnic Genocide by a Governance Crisis

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Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia Guest Edited by Sheldon Pollock

Sheldon Pollock: Introduction

Sumit Guha: Transitions and Translations: Regional Power and Vernacular Identity in the Dakhan c.1500-1800

Imre Bangha: Dynamics of Textual Transmission in Premodern India: The Kavitâvalî of Tulsî Dâs

Allison Busch: The Anxiety of Literary Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in Hindi/Riti Tradition

Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam: The Making of a Munshi

Sunil Sharma: The City of Beauties in the Indo-Persian Poetic Landscape

Janet Gyatso: The Authority of Empiricism and the Empiricism of Authority: Medicine and Buddhism in Tibet on the Eve of Modernity

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German Orientalism Guest Edited by Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer Jenkins: German Orientalism: Its Histories and Legacies

Susan R. Boettcher:Lutheran Sermons on the Turk: Jacob Andreae's Message on the Turks after Szeged (1568)

Tuska Benes: Comparative Linguistics as Ethnology: In Search of Indo-Germans in Central Asia, 1770-1830

Nina Berman: Buber versus Herzl: Zionism as Orientalism

Gottfried Hagen: German Heralds of Holy War: A Case Study in Applied Orientalism

Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous: Will the Real Almasy Please Stand Up! Transporting Central European Orientalism via The English Patient

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Notes on Contributors

Muzaffar Alam is Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Earlier he taught for over twenty-five years at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). He has authored The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India, 1707–1748 (1986), and The Languages of Political Islam: India, 1200–1800 (2004), as well as co-edited The Mughal State (1998) with Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Tuska Benes received a BA in History from Wellesley College in 1993 and a PhD in History from the University of Washington in 2001. She is currently Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.

Nina Berman is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies and German Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004) and Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschsprachigen Kultur um 1900 (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997). She is currently working on a study entitled “Germany and the Middle East: A Cultural History, 900–2000.”

Susan R. Boettcher is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her ongoing research concerns the cultural constitution of early Lutheranism through theology, popular literature, preaching, memory, and polemic. She is currently completing a book manuscript on commemoration of Luther and Lutheran memory, 1546-1580.

Allison Busch is assistant professor of Hindi-Urdu language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Her research centers on courtly literature and intellectual history in early-modern north India. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled “The Courtly Vernacular: Hindi Literary Culture from Mughal to Colonial Times.”

Gottfried Hagen graduated from Heidelberg University with an MA in Islamic Studies, Semitic Languages, and Medieval and Modern History in 1989 and obtained his PhD in Turkish Studies from Free University of Berlin in 1996. Since 2000 he has been Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Michigan. He has worked extensively on Ottoman intellectual and religious history, including questions of cultural transfer and mutual perception between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. His books include Die Türkei im Ersten Weltkrieg. Flugblätter und Flugschriften in arabischer, persischer und osmanisch-türkischer Sprache eingeleitet, übersetzt und kommentiert (Frankfurt: P. Lang, 1990), and Ein osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit. Entstehung und Gedankenwelt von Katib Çelebis Gihannnüma (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2003).

Jennifer Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Hamburg (Cornell University Press, 2003), an exploration of the dynamics of nationalism, modernity, and public culture in Imperial Germany. She is currently working on a book on the relationship between Germany and Iran after 1890.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford. He has taught at Delhi and Paris, as well as Lisbon, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis. His books include The Political Economy of Commerce (1990), The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (1997), Penumbral Visions (2001), and Mughals and Franks (2004).Jennifer Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Hamburg (Cornell University Press, 2003), an exploration of the dynamics of nationalism, modernity, and public culture in Imperial Germany. She is currently working on a book on the relationship between Germany and Iran after 1890.

Volume 24:1 (2004)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume 24 | Number 1 | 2004

Table of Contents

Contentions

Henry Giroux: What Might Education Mean After Abu Ghraib: Revisiting Adorno’s Politics of Education

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Sex, Gender, and Family Structure Guest Edited by A. Holly Shissler

Tracy Pintchman: Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard: Quarantined: Women and the Partition

Monica M. Ringer: Rethinking Religion: Progress and Morality in the Early 20th Century Women’s Press

Liat Kozma: Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Sarah Gualtieri: Gendering the Chain Migration Thesis: Women and Syrian Transatlantic Migration, 1878- 1924

Camron Michael Amin: Importing ‘Beauty Culture’ into Iran in the 1920’s and 1930’s: Mass Marketing Individualism in an Age of Anti-Imperialist Sacrifice

Shaun T. Lopez: The Dangers of Dancing: The Media and Morality in 1930’s Egypt

A. Holly Shissler: Beauty is Nothing to Be Ashamed of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early Republican Turkey

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Collaboration and Empire in the Middle East and North Africa Guest Edited by Julia Clancy-Smith

Julia Clancy-Smith: Introduction

James Onley: Britain’s Native Agents in Arabia and Persia in the Nineteenth Century

Moshe Gershovich: Collaboration and “Pacification”: French Conquest, Moroccan Combatants, and the Transformation of the Middle Atlas

James McDougall: The Shabiba Islamiyya of Algiers: Education, Authority and Colonial Control, 1921-57

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September 11th: Global Impacts Guest Edited by Louise Cainkar

Louise Cainkar: Introduction

Bahram M. Rajaee: Deciphering Iran: The Political Evolution of the Islamic Republic and U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11th

Ala Al-Hamarneh & Christian Steiner: Islamic Tourism: Rethinking the Strategies of Tourism Development in the Arab World after September 11th

Derek Gregory: Palestine and the War on Terror

Brian Glyn Williams: From “Secessionist Rebels” to “Al-Qaeda Shock Bri-gades”: Assessing Russia’s Efforts to Extend the Post-September 11th War on Terror to Chechnya

Irit Back: Muslimsand Christians in Nigeria: Attitudes Toward the United States from a Post-September 11th Perspective

Sunaina Maira: Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States After September 11th

Victoria Mason: Strangers Within the "Lucky Country": Arab-Australians After September 11th

Louise Cainkar: Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affecting U. S. Arabs and Muslims: A Brief Review

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Variorum

Paul Sedra:Imagining an Imperial Race:Egyptology in the Service of Empire

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza: The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa: The Challenges of Productive Engagement

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Book Reviews

Holger Weiss, ed. Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa. Reviewed by Raphael Chijioke Njoku.

Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Reviewed by Nesta Ramazani.

Eva E. Rosander. Transforming Female Identities: Women's Organizational Forms in West Africa. Reviewed by Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong.

Ellen L. Fleischmann. The Nation and its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement 1920-1948. Reviewed by Abigail Jacobson.

Mai Palmberg, ed. Encounter Images in the Meetings between Africa and Europe. Reviewed by Mary McCullough.

Mahnaz Kousha. Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women. Reviewed by Mary Hegland.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Amina Mama, Henning Melber & Francis B. Nyamnjoh. Identity and Beyond: Rethinking Africanity. Reviewed by Karen Bouwer.

Volume 23:1&2 (2003)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume 23 | Numbers 1 & 2 | 2003

Table of Contents

In Memoriam

Natalie Zemon Davis: Being Grateful to Edward Said

Linda Hutcheon: Requiem for Edward Said

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Memoriam: Edward W.Said

Ilan Pappe: A Tribute to Edward Said

Melanie Newton: Reflections on Edward Said: A Caribbean Perspective

Ania Looma: Remembering Said

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Comparative (Post)Colonialisms Guest Edited by Waïl S. Hassan and Rebecca Saunders

Waïl S. Hassan and Rebecca Saunders: Introduction

Madeleine Dobie: Francophone Studies and the Linguistic Diversity of the Maghreb

Liam Connell: Modes of Marginality: Scottish Literature and the Uses of Postcolonial Theory

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: License to Write: Encounters with Censorship

Carl Niekerk: Rethinking a Problematic Constellation: Postcolonialism and its Germanic Contexts (Pramoedya Ananta Toer / Multatuli)

Brian T. Edwards: Preposterous Encounters: Interrupting American Studies with the (post)colonial, or Casablanca in the American Century

Adrian Otoiu: An Exercise in Fictional Liminality: Postcolonialism, Postcommunism, and Romania's Threshhold Generation

Lital Levy: Exchanging Words: Thematizations of Translation in Arabic Writing from Isr

Ipshita Chanda: The Tortoise and the Leopard, or the 'Post' colonial Muse

Ignacio Tofino-Quesada: Spanish Orientalism: Uses of the Past in Spain's Colonization in Africa

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Contentions

Michael Grossberg: Is There a Crisis in Middle East Academic Publishing? The View from a History Journal Editor

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New Directions in Palestinian Historiography Guest Edited by Issam Nassar

Issam Nassar: Remapping Palestine and the Palestinians: Decolonizing and Research

Elia Zureik: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for the Study of Palestinian Society

Jamil Hilal: Problematising Democracy in Palestine

Salim Tamari: Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City

Kimberly Katz: Legitimizing Jordan as the Holy Land: Papal Pilgrimages, 1964 and 2000

Rochelle Davis: Commemorating Education: Recollections of the Arab College in Jerusalem, 1918-1948

Sari Hanafi & Linda Tabar: Palestinian Globalized Elite and the Second Intifada

Tania Forte: Sifting People, Sorting Paper: Power, Knowledge, and the Constitution of Expertise on Palestinian history in Israel

Ilan Pappe: The Post-Territorial Dimensions of a Future Homeland in Israel and Palestine

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Variorum

Homa Katouzian: Legitimacy and Succession in Iranian History

Firoozeh Papan-Matin: The Crisis of Identity in Rumi's Tale of the Reed

Eugene F. Irschick: Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in Early Eighteenth Century South India

Andrew Sartori: The Categorial Logic of a Colonial Nationalism: Swadeshi Bengal, 1904-1908

Sharmistha Gooptu: The Glory that Was: An Exploration of the Iconicity of New Theaters

Ali Riaz: God Willing: Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh

Kamran Asdar Ali:>/b> Myths, Lies and Impotence: Structural Adjustment and Male Voice in Egypt

Agbenyega Adedze: In the Pursuit of Knowledge and Power: French Scientific Research in West Africa

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Book Reviews

Ranajit Guha, History at the limit of world-history. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. By Haider A. Khan

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography. St. Antony's Series. Palgrave: Hampshire and New York, 2001. By Nasrin Rahimieh

Keya Ganguly, States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 200. By Sunaina Maira

As’ad Ghanem, The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000. New York: The State University of New York Press, 2001. By Ahmad Harb

Sukeshi Kamra, Bearing Witness: Partition, Independence, End of Raj. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. By Neela Bhattacharya Saxena

David R. Loy. A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. By Perle Besserman

Jeannie Suk, Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Cesaire, Glissant, Conde. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. By Nick Nesbitt

Gaurav Desai, Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (Durham: Duke University Press). By Olakunle George

Alfred J. Lopez, Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. By Luís Madureira

Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, 'Algeria in Others' Languages. Cornell University Press, 2002. By Aida Bamia

Volume 22:1&2 (2002)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume XXII | Numbers 1&2 | 2002

Table of Contents



Linda T. Darling: Do Justice, Do Justice, For that is Paradise: Middle Eastern Advice for Indian Muslim Rulers

Rochona Majumdar: Self-Sacrifice versus Self-Interest: A Non-Historicist Reading of the History of Women's Rights in India

James Clark: Frequent Imcompatibilities: Ethnic and Religious Diversity and the Nations of the Middle East

Mehran Kamrava: The Politics of Weak Control: State Capacity and Economic Semi-Formality in the Middle East

Ali Riaz: Nations, Nation-State and Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia

Henry F. Carey: The Postcolonial State and the Protection of Human Rights

Runa Das: Engendering Postcolonial Nuclear Policies Through the Lens of Hindutva:Rethinking the Security Paradigm of India

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Testing the Limits: The Poetics of Remaking

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Pregnant with God: The Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred In Rumi's Fih-i ma fih

Nargis Virani: "I am the Nightingale of the Merciful": Rumi's use of the Qur'an and Hadith

Sunil Sharma: Amir Khusraw and the Genre of Historical Narratives in Verse

Juan R. I. Cole: The Provincial Politics of Heresy and Reform in Qajar Iran: Shaykh al-Ra'is in Shiraz, 1895-1902

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Contentions

Alec Rasizade: Azerbaijan Descending into the Third World After a Decade of Independence

Patricia K. McCormick: Internet Access in Africa: A Critical Review of Public Policy Issues

Notes on Contributors

Volume 21:1&2 (2001)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Vol. XX1 | Nos. 1 & 2 | 2001

Education in the Middle East
Guedt Edited by Monica Ringer



Monica Ringer: Introduction

Betty S. Anderson: Writing the Nation

Isa Blumi: Teaching Loyalty in the Late Ottoman Balkans

Michael Fisher: Persian Professor in Britain

Benjamin Fortna: Learning to Read

Vickie Langohr: Educational "Subcontracting"

Mona Russell: Egyptian Education under British Occupation

Barak Salmoni: The "Teachers Army"

BOOK REVIEWS

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Globalization and Cultural Studies
Guest Edited by Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer Jenkins: Introduction

Richard Terdiman: Globalization and Cultural Studies

Rebecca Saunders: The Foreigner at the Gate of Globalization

Manu Bhagavan and Faisal Bari: (Mis)Representing Economy

Kamrouz Pirouz: Iran's Oil Nationalization

Vaheed Ramazani: September 11, 2001

Valentine Moghadam: Violence and Terrorism

Notes on Contributors

Calls for Papers

Volume 20:1&2 (2000)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Vol. XX | Nos. 1 & 2 | 2000

Political Geographies of Fin-de-Siecle Capitalism
Edited by V. Kaiwar and
S. Mazumdar



Vasant Kaiwar & Sucheta Mazumdar: Transitions

Gerard Heuze: Populism, Religion, Nation in Contemporary India

Sadik J. Al-Azm: The Satanic Verses Post-Festum

Aminah Mohammad-Arif: Young South Asians Muslims in the US

Ajantha Subramanian: Race, Class, Culture in the Making of Immigrant Identity

Leela Fernandes: Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India

Achin Vanaik, David Pizzo, and Vasant Kaiwar: Debate on Fascism

A. William Samii: Ethnicity, Unity, State Policy in Iran

Alec Rasizade: The Mythology of the Munificent Caspian Bonanza

Allison Drew: Interview with Mandla Langa

Book Reviews

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Iranian Immigrants, Exiles andRefugees
Guest edited by Minoo Moallem

Minoo Moallem: Introduction

Mina Agha: The Biographical Significance of Flight and Exile

Afshin Matin-Asgari: Tehran Memoirs and Diaries

Janet L. Bauer: The Cultural Politics of Self and Community in the Diaspora

Minoo Moallem: Transnationalism and Immigrant Entrepreneurial Spaces

Volume 19:2 (1999)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume XIX | Number 2 | 1999

Trade, Politics, and Identity in the Colonial Indian Ocean Guest edited by Edward A. Alpers

Edward A. Alpers: Introduction

Vijaya Teelock: The Influence of Slavery in the Formation of Creole Identity


Erik Gilbert: Sailing from Lamu and Back: Labor Migration and Regional Trade in Colonial East Africa

Charles Schaefer: "Selling at a Wash": Competition and the Indian Merchant Community in Aden Crown Colony

James R. Brennan: South Asian Nationalism in an East African Context: The Case of Tanganyika, 1914-1956

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Symposium: Robert Brenner's Economics
of Global Turbulence
Guest edited by Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt: Introduction

Fredric Jameson: Turbulence in Brenner

Vasant Kaiwar: The Dilemmas of Late Capitalism

Kenneth Surin: Standing Schumpeter on His Head: Robert Brenner's Economics of Global Turbulence

Rober Brenner: Reply to Critics Robert

Valentine Moghadam: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the World

Volume 19:1 (1999)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Vol. XIX | No. 1 | 1999

Labor and the Left in South Africa
Guest edited by allison Drew

Allison Drew: Introduction

Lucien van der Walt: The Industrial Union is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth
The International Socialist League and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1915-1920

Peter Alexander: Coal, Control and Class Experience in South Africa’s Rand Revolt of 1922

Vladimir Shubin: Digging in the Gold Mine: The Mayibuye Centre Archive as a Source on the History of the South African Liberation Movement

Phil Eidelberg: Guerrilla Warfare and the Decline of Urban Apartheid: The Shaping of a New African Middle Class and the Transformation of the African National Congress (1957-1985)

Andrew Nash: The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa

Lungisile Ntsebeza: Democratization and Traditional Authorities in the New South Africa

Allison Drew: Interview with Leonard Gentle, April 199

Document: Meeting of Communist Delegates at the Albert Street Hall, 13th November, 1932

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Contradictions of Globalization

Amiya Kumar Bagchi: Dualism and Dialectics in the Historiography of Labor

Amir Arsalan Afkhami: Defending the Guarded Domain: Epidemics and the Emergence of International Sanitary Policy in Iran

Valentine M. Moghadam: Gender, National Identity and Citizenship: Reflections on the Middle East and Africa

Bonny Ibhawoh:Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Africa

Book Review:
Tariq Rahman, Language and Politics in Pakistan, Reviewed by Gail Minault

Volume 18:2 (1998)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Vol. XXI | Nos. 1 & 2 | 2001

The Emergence of Modernity and Nationalism in Iran
Edited by M. Tavakoli and A. R. Sheikholeslami
Guest edited by Jean-Luc Racine



Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi: Modernity, Heterotopia and Homeless Texts

A. Reza Sheikholeslami: The Patrimonial Monarchy of Nasir al-Din Shah

Homa Katouzian: Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Iran

Negar Mottahedeh: Qurrat al-‘Ayn Tahirah’s Unveiling and the Massacre of the Babis

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet: The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in Ottoman Turkey and Iran

Michael Rubin: The Telegraph and Frontier Politics in Iran

Pedram Partovi: Authorial Intention and Illocutionary Force in Jalal Al-i Ahmad’s Gharbzadigi

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Identity Politics and Global Economics

Abbas Vali: The Fragmentation of Identity and Politics in Kurdish Nationalism

Valentine Moghadam: Gender, National Identity and Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa

David Pizzo: The Museumization of Fascism

Devesh Vijay: Recent Conceptual Shifts in Left Writings on Indian Politics

Bonny Ibhawoh: Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Africa

J.I. Dibua: Neo-Liberalism and Africa’s Development Crisis

Volume 18:1 (1998)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Vol. XVIII No. 1 (1998)

Untouchability and Beyond: French Studies of Indian Dalits
Guest edited by Jean-Luc Racine

Jean-Luc Racine: Introduction

Jean-Luc & Josiane Racine: Dalit Identities and the Dialectics of Oppression and Emancipation

Dominique-Sila Khan: Is God an Untouchable?

Robert Deliege: Untouchability and Catholicism

Christophe Jaffrelot: The Bahujan Samaj Party in North India

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Reframing Political Debates
Edtited by V. Kaiwar, S. Mazumdar,
and M. West

Achin Vanaik: The Indian Nuclear Tests

Jonathan Reynolds: Islam, Politics and Women’s Rights

Rashid Khalidi: The “Middle East” as a Framework of Analysis

Saurabh Dube: Ethnographic Histories and Untouchable Pasts

Jeff Rudin: Challenging Apartheid’s Foreign Debt

Volume 17:2 (1997)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)

Vol. XVII | No. 2 | 1997

Muslim Identity Politics:
Fifty Years after Independence, Part III
Guest edited by Mushirul Hasan


Gail Minault: Women, Legal Reform and Muslim Identity

Niraja Gopal Jayal: Secularism, Identities and Representative Democracy

Papiya Ghosh: Partition's Biharis

Shail Mayaram: Rethinking Meo Identity“Race”/Diasporas/Politics

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"Race"/Diasporas/Politics
Edited by V. Kaiwar, S. Mazumdar, G. Waite & M. West

Andrew Barnes: Aryanizing Projects, African Collaborators and Colonial Transcripts

Edward Alpers: The African Diaspora in the Northwestern Indian Ocean

Jacqueline Vieceli: Structural Adjustment and Democracy in the “Third World”
Surendra Bhana: The Reconfiguration of Indianness in South Africa

Hassan Gardezi: The Making of the Neo-Colonial State in South Asia

Carlton Wilson: Conceptualizing the African Diaspora

Valentine Moghadam: Nativism, Orientalism and the Left

Book Review:

Emeagwali, ed., Women Pay the Price: Structural Adjustment in Africa and the Caribbean, reviewed by Gloria Waite

Volume 17:1 (1997)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)

Vol. XVII | No. 1 | 1997

Muslim Identity Politics in India and Balkans:
Fifty Years after Independence (Part II)
Guest edited by Mushirul Hasan

Hamza Alavi: Ironies of History: Contradictions of the Khilafat Movement

Nathalie Clayer & Alexandre Popovic:Muslim Identity in the Balkans in the Post-Ottoman Period

Ivan Ivekovic: The Political Use and Abuse of Religion in Transcaucasia and Yugoslavia

Mohammad Talib: The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identity

Ian Copland: The Quaid-i-Azam and the Nawab Chancellor: Literary Paradigms in the Historical Construction of Muslim Identity

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The Caribbean in Global Perspective
Guest edited by David Barry Gaspar

David Barry Gaspar: Introduction

Dale Tomich: Spaces of Slavery, Times of Freedom: Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective

Michaeline A. Crichlow: The Limits of Maneuver: Caribbean States, Small Farmers and the Capitalist World Economy, 1940s-1995

O. Nigel Bolland: Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Struggle for National Libera-tion: The Caribbean Labour Congress and the Cold War, 1945-52

Tony Martin: Discovering African Roots: Amy Ashwood Garvey’s Pan-Africanist Journey

Aisha Khan: Migration Narratives and Moral Imperatives: Local and Global in the Muslim Caribbean

Shirley Gordon: God is dumb until the drum speaks: Religious Life in Jamaica before Emancipation

Voluem 16:2 (1996)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)

Vol. XVI | No. 2 | 1996

Muslim Identity Politics: Fifty Years after Independence (Part I)
Guest edited by Mushirul Hasan


Jamal Malik: Muslim Identities Suspended between Tradition and Modernity

Kalim Bahadur: Muslim Identity in the Subcontinent: An Overview

Joya Chatterji: The Bengali Muslim: A Contradiction in Terms? An Overview of the Debate on Bengali Muslim Identity

Mohamad Ishaq Khan: Kashmiri Muslims: Social and Identity Consciousness
Marc Gaborieau: Varying Identities of Nepalese Muslims

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Nation, Culture and Politics

Edited by Vasant Kaiwar, Sucheta Mazumdar & Michael O. West


Michael O. West: Crossing Boundaries: Research Notes on South Asians and Africans in Africa, the Americas and Europe

William G. Martin: After Area Studies: A Return to a Transnational Africa?

Richa Nagar: The South Asian Diaspora in Tanzania: A History Retold

Amina H. Adan: Women and Words: The Role of Women in Somali Oral Literature

Maziar Behrooz: The Islamic State and the Crisis of MarjaÔiyat

Henry F. Carey: Criminal Injustice and Mimic Democratization in Pakistan

Clare Talwalker: ShivajiÕs Army and Other ÒNativesÓ in Bombay

Volume 16:1 (1996)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)

Vol. XVI | No. 1 | 1996

DIVERGENT MODERNITIES: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ORIENTALISM, ISLAMISM AND NATIONALISM

Guest edited by Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi


Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi: Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia

Brian Hatcher: Indigent Brahmans, Industrious Pandits: Bourgeois Ideology and Sanskrit Pandits in Colonial Calcutta

Roland Lardinois: The Genesis of Louis DumontÕs Anthropology: The 1930s in France Revisited

Shantanu Phukan: None Mad as a Hindu Woman: Contesting Communal Readings of Padmavat

Masoud Khazemzadeh: The State, Civil Society and the Prospects of Islamic Fundamentalism

Carl Ernst: Local Cultural Nationalism as Anti-Fundamentalist Strategy in Pakistan

Ylana Miller: Palestinian Transitions

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REINTERPRETING AFRICAN HISTORY

Edited by Vasant Kaiwar, Sucheta Mazumdar & Michael West

Jacques Depelchin: From the End of Slavery to the End of Apartheid: Towards a Radical Break in African History?

Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim: The 1971 Coup in the Sudan and the Radical War of Liberal Democracy in Africa

Gloria Waite: The Noma Award and the Case of Tiyambe Zeleza

Patrick Manning: African Economic History: A View from the Continent

Joseph E. Inikori: Inequalities in the Production of Historical Knowledge

William G. Martin: The End of Africanist Economic History? Considerations of Tiyambe ZelezaÕs, A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol. I, The Nineteenth Century

Volume 15:2 (1995)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)

Vol. XV | No. 2 | 1995

AFRICAN LABOR AND DIASPORA
Guest edited by Ibrahim Abdullah


Ibrahim Abdullah: Introduction

Ibrahim Abdullah: Whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth To Do, Do It With Thy Might: Artisan Experience in Late Nineteenth Century Freetown, Sierra Leone

Stephen Rockel: Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania: The Central Caravan Routes

Carlton Wilson: BritainÕs Red Summer: The 1919 Race Riots in Liverpool

Ahmad Alawad Sikainga: Labor Activism and Solidarity among the Railway Workers of Atbara (Sudan), 1924-1948

Carolyn A. Brown: Struggles over the Labor Process: Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria

Pieter C. van Duin: ÒWorkers of All Colours UniteÓ: South African Communism, the White Working Class, and the Ideology of Proletarian Non-Racialism, 1917-1943

David Johnson: Urban Labor, the War, and the Revolt of the Working People in Colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia)

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CULTURE, POLITICS AND TECHNOLOGY

Edited by Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar

Nawal El-Saadawi: A New Battle for the WomenÕs Movement in Egypt

Parita Mukta: Wresting Riches, Marginalizing the Poor, Criminalizing Dissent: The Building of the Narmada Dam in Western India

V. Santhakumar and R. Rajagopalan: The Green Revolution in Kerala: A Discourse on Technology and Nature

A. R. Venkatachalapathy: Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu

Review Essay

Joselyn Zivin:Colonial Rules and Margins: the Hybrid Origins of the Indian Press and Propaganda State

Volume 15:1 (1995)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)

Vol. XV | No. 1 | 1995

Special Issue on South Africa
Guest edited by Allison Drew

Allison Drew: Introduction.

Neville Alexander: ÒThe Moment of ManoeuvreÓ: ÒRace,Ó Ethnicity, and Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Fred T. Hendricks: Is there a Future for a Black Peasantry in South Africa?

Daryl Glaser: Ethnic Self-Determination in Normative Theory: Some Implications for Post-Apartheid South Africa

Ashwin Desai and Adam Habib: COSATU and the Democratic Transition in South Africa: Drifting towards Corporatism?

Cherryl Walker: Women, ÒTraditionÓ and Reconstruction in South Africa

Lungisile Ntsebeza: Land Demand, Availability and UseÑPreliminary Reflections on the possibilities and limits of the land reform program.

Documents:

1. Draft Policy: Occupational Health and Workplace Issues, Women's Health Conference, Johannesburg, December 2-4, 1994.

2. Challenging the Liberal Agenda in South Africa, Discussion Document presented to the Socialist Conference for Reconstruction and Development, November 5-6, 1994

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State and Politics in the Middle East
Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar and Vasant Kaiwar

Afshin Matin-Asgari: Iran, Religious Revolution or Structural Realignment in State Formation?

Sasan Fayazmanesh: Theories of Development and the Iranian Left (1960s-1970s): A Critical Assessment.

Margaret Abraham: Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study of Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel

Munis Faruqui: Commentary: Contextualizing KarachiÕs Violence

Volume 14:2 (1994)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East

Vol. XIV | No. 2 | 1994

The Communal Problem in India, Part II

Kamal A. Mitra Chenoy: CitizenÕs Inquiry Reports on Ayodhya and Its Aftermath

Tanika Sarkar: Educating the Children of the Hindu Rashtra, Notes on RSS Schools

Asghar Ali Engineer: Communal Violence and the Role of Law Enforcement Agencies

Mushirul Hasan: Minority Identity and Its Discontents, Ayodhya and Its Aftermath

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Beyond Identity Politics, Part II

Bruce B. Lawrence: Tracking Fundamenta lists and Those Who Study Them; A Sequel to

Sadik Al-Azm:ÒIslamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered...Ó

Sondra Hale: Gender Politics and Islamization in Sudan

Robert A. Hill: Ethiopian Stories: George S. Schuyler and Literary Pan-Africanism in the 1930s

Michael O. West: Indians, India, and Race and Nationalism in British Central Africa

C. M. Naim: The Second Tyranny of Religious Majorities

Ajantha Subramanian: Is Development a Red Herring? Indian Fishworkers, Multinationals and the State

Volume 14:1 (1994)

Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa and the Middle East

Vol. XIV | No. 1 | 1994

The Communal Problem in India, Part I
Guest edited by Praful Bidwai, Harbans Mukhia, Achin Vanaik



Praful Bidwai, Harbans Mukhia, Achin Vanaik: Secularism and Communalism: Political Assessments, Theoretical Explorations, Introduction

Rajni Kothari: Caste, Communalism and the Democratic Process

Manini Chatterji: The BJP: Political Mobilization for Hindutva

Aijaz Ahmad: Nation, Community, Violence

Rajeev Bhargava: How Not to Defend Secularism

Zoya Hasan: Communal Mobilization: Case Studies Party Politics and Communal Mobilization in Uttar Pradesh

Dipak Malik: Three Riots in Varanasi, 1989-90 to 1992

Ghanshyam Shah: The BJP and Backward Castes in Gujarat

M.S. Prabhakara: BJP and the North-East

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Beyond Identity Politics, Part I

Edited by Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar

Sadik J. Al-Azm: Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part II

Amina H. Adan: Somalia: An Illusory Political Nation-State

Hassan N. Gardezi: Politics of Religion in PakistanÕs Election: An Assessment

Anju Kapur: Theorizing Women Writing in India

Volume 13: 1 & 2 (1993)

South Asia Bulletin
Vol. XII, No. 2 (Fall 1992)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST Vol. XIII, (1993)

Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar: EditorsÕ Notes: Launching a New South Asia Bulletin/Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East



Special Issue on Nepal
Guest edited by Nanda R. Shrestha

Nanda R. Shrestha: Enchanted by the Mantra of Bikas: A Self-Reflective Perspective on Nepalese Elites and Development

Jeffrey Riedinger: Prospects for Land Reform in Nepal

David N. Zurick: The Road to Shangri La is Paved: Spatial Development and Rural Transformation in Nepal

Stacy Leigh Pigg: Unintended Consequences: The Ideological Impact of Development in Nepal

Naomi H. Bishop: Circular Migration and Families: A Yolmo Sherpa Example

Mary Des Chene: Soldiers, Sovereignty and Silences: Gorkhas as Diplomatic Currency

Barbara Parker and David W. Patterson: HeÕs No Good: Sexual Division of Labor and Habitus among NepalÕs Marpha Thakali

Surendra Pandey: The Vadi Community and Prostitution

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Fundamentalism and Patriarchy
in the Middle East and South Asia

Edited by Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar

Sadik J. Al-Azm: Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part I.

Valentine M. Moghadam: Patriarchy and the Politics of Gender in Modernizing Societies: Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan

Volume 12:2 (1992)

South Asia Bulletin
Vol. XII, No. 2 (Fall 1992)

Special Issue on Religion, Gender
and Class Politics

Sucheta Mazumdar: Women, Culture and Politics: Engendering the Hindu Nation

Minoo Moallem: The Ethnicity of an Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran

C. M. Naim: Minority Rights or Human Rights?

Vasant Kaiwar: Science, Capitalism and Islam

Allison Drew: Political Representation and the Indian Question in South African Politics

Peter Mayer: Has India's Self-Sufficiency in Agriculture been Achieved at the Expense of Social Justice? Reflections on Recent Village Studies in Tamil Nadu

Bruce P. Corrie: The Impact of the Development Process on Dalit and Tribal Children in South India

Usha Thakkar and Mangesh Kulkarni: Environment and Development: The Case of the Sardar Sarovar Project

Document

Meeting of Workers' Leaders from Multinational Corporations in South Asia, New Delhi, March 26-28th, 1992

Book Reviews

Santosh Mehrotra, India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer by Deepa Ollapally and G. Anandalingam Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steve Vertovec (eds.) South Asians Overseas: Migration and Ethnicity by Ramdas Menon

Volume 12:1

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Volume 11

South Asia Bulletin
Vol. XI: 1 & 2 (1991)

Tenth Anniversary Special Double Issue on Nationalism, Populism, and Gender

Sadik J. Al-Azm: The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi: The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident

Meera Nanda: Is Modern Science a Western, Patriarchal Myth? A Critique of the Populist Orthodoxy

Harbans Mukhia: Communalism and the Indian Polity

Vasant Kaiwar: On Provincialism and ``Popular Nationalism'': Reflections on Samir Amin's Eurocentrism

Eelam Qadri Ismail: Boys Will Be Boys: Gender And National Agency in Frantz Fanon and The Liberation Tigers Of Tamil

Arati Rao: (Re)Writing Women's Wor(l)ds: Fact And Fiction

Khawar Mumtaz: Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal and Sindhiani Tehrik: Two Responses to Political Development in Pakistan




Mihir Desai: A Justification of Affirmative Action (Reservations) for Backward Castes in India

Ila Pathak: The Legal Machinery and Its Inability to Guarantee Democratic Rights

Lawrence S. Wittner: Nuclear Weapons, Resistance, and the Nation-State System




Human Rights in Sri Lanka: An Interview with Barnett Rubin