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Violence and state formation in Pakistan (2015)
Book Chapter
Singh, G. Violence and state formation in Pakistan. In R. D. Long, G. Singh, Y. Samad, & I. Talbot (Eds.), State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond Islam and Security (192-206). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696904-16

The idea behind this collection of essays was first mooted at the British Association of South Asian Studies conference held at Southampton in 2011. A number of us working on communal violence in India and Pakistan, with a strong interest in the hist... Read More about Violence and state formation in Pakistan.

Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music (2015)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2015). Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music. In F. Orsini, & K. B. Schofield (Eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0062.08

Dāphā bhajan is a style of devotional song performance practised by Newar men in the towns of the Kathmandu Valley. Although it is now primarily the farming community who maintain it, it originated in the court culture of the Newar kings in the 17th... Read More about Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music.

Jaina Forest Monk in Meditation: A Rare Jaina Image of Balarāma at Mt. Māṅgī-Tuṅgī (2015)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2015). Jaina Forest Monk in Meditation: A Rare Jaina Image of Balarāma at Mt. Māṅgī-Tuṅgī. In L. Soni, & J. Soni (Eds.), Sanmati: Essays Felicitating Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (185-194). Satna Book Hourse

The article investigates an intriguing, tangible link that was created between the Balabhadra legend of the Śvetāmbara Jaina Universal History and the ancient Digambara Jaina pilgrimage site of Mt. Māṅgī-Tuṅgī in northern Mahārāṣṭṛa: a rare and possi... Read More about Jaina Forest Monk in Meditation: A Rare Jaina Image of Balarāma at Mt. Māṅgī-Tuṅgī.

Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions (2015)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2015). Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions. In A. J. Silverstein, & G. G. Stroumsa (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions (405-425). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697762.013.30

The problem of the nature and dynamics of the interrelations between traditions of religious dualism and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is of major importance for the exploration and understanding of some of the characteristic theological tensions... Read More about Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions.

Ideologies and typologies of language endangerment in Africa (2015)
Book Chapter
Lüpke, F. (2015). Ideologies and typologies of language endangerment in Africa. In J. Essegbey, B. Henderson, & F. Mc Laughlin (Eds.), Language documentation and endangerment in Africa (59-105). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.17.03lup

This chapter aims at redressing the deplorable fact that African languages, their social life and vitality, are assessed according to ideas of Africa grounded in Western language ideologies and based and on language criteria developed based on Americ... Read More about Ideologies and typologies of language endangerment in Africa.

Brazil: The failure of the PT and the Rise of the "New Right" (2015)
Book Chapter
Saad Filho, A., & Boito, A. (2015). Brazil: The failure of the PT and the Rise of the "New Right". In L. Panitch, & G. Albo (Eds.), The politics of the right : Socialist Register 2016 (213-230). Merlin Press

The 2015 protests were very different from the previous wave of demonstrations in mid-2013. The latter were ignited by radical left workers and students contesting a public transport fare increase, although the movement was soon captured by an odd am... Read More about Brazil: The failure of the PT and the Rise of the "New Right".

Facets of Light: The Case of Rock Crystals (2015)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2015). Facets of Light: The Case of Rock Crystals. In J. Bloom, & S. Blair (Eds.), God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth. Light in Islamic Art and Culture. Yale University Press, pp. 121-155

Sanitation Law in India – An Overview (2015)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P., & Bhullar, L. (2015). Sanitation Law in India – An Overview. In P. Cullet, & L. Bhullar (Eds.), Sanitation Law and Policy in India – An Introduction to Basic Instruments (6-16). Oxford University Press

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Orsini, F., & Butler Schofield, K. (2015). Introduction. In F. Orsini, & K. Butler Schofield (Eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (1-30). Open Books. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0062.18

United Progressive Alliance (I) and India’s Muslims: Redefining Equality of Opportunity? (2015)
Book Chapter
Kim, H. (2015). United Progressive Alliance (I) and India’s Muslims: Redefining Equality of Opportunity?. In M. Rehman (Ed.), Communalism in Postcolonial India: Changing Contours (234-256). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429457944

In developing countries somewhat similar processes have been evident, too. In India, the growth of communalism since the early 1980s reached its climax in the Gujarat riots of 2002, which saw the death of 5,000 Muslims and the further displacement of... Read More about United Progressive Alliance (I) and India’s Muslims: Redefining Equality of Opportunity?.

Congo-Gauteng; Congolese migration to South Africa (2015)
Book Chapter
Inaka, S. J., & Trapido, J. (2015). Congo-Gauteng; Congolese migration to South Africa. In K. Hart, & J. Sharp (Eds.), People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South (151-172). Berghahn

Nepal, imperialism and anti-imperialism (2015)
Book Chapter
Ismail, F. (2015). Nepal, imperialism and anti-imperialism. In I. Ness, & Z. Cope (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (375-386). Palgrave Macmillan