India's Social Landscape

List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Intersecting Contests: The Frayed Edges of Indian Society Section I Rhythms of Resistance: Gender, Ritual, and the Critique of Modernity 2. The Unwanted Aspect: Normative Fetish and Epistemological Deceit 3. Mythical Love and Conjugality in Everyday Life: Gender and Politics in India 4. Doing Compensatory Masculinity: Rural Men Negotiating Cross-region Marriages in Haryana 5. Temporal Rhythms in Village Life: Stories of Abundance and Lack in Purulia, West Bengal 6. Harparauri: Echoes of an Extinct Women's Folk Ritual in the Bhojpuri World Section II Contested Belongings: Identity, Language, and Diaspora in Contemporary India 7. Neither Rural, Nor Urban: Incomplete Migration in Dalit Life-narratives 8. Bengali Muslims in Assam and 'Miyah' Poetry: Walking on the Shifting Terrains of 'Na-Asamiya' and 'Infiltrator' 9. Negotiating Community: Narratives around Locating the 'Professed' Rangrez Identity 10. Away from Hindi's Shadow: Census and Bhojpuri in Bihar 11. Indian Diaspora's Journey into Neo-Conservatism Section III Tribute to Hetukar Jha 12. Professor Hetukar Jha's Contributions to the Study of Historical Sociology 13. Indian Sociology, Village Structures, and Regional Imagination: Reflections on Hetukar Jha's Critical Works 14. Hetukar Jha: A Biographical Note and Select Bibliography

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