Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India

by Veena Das

Book Overview

This book identifies certain moments in the history of contemporary India. These events concern Partition, sati, minority rights, the Bhopal industrial disaster, the nature of the Indian state, and various sociological issues. Veena Das redescribes these events and their implications within the framework of anthropological knowledge. Her methodologically innovative attempt here is to produce an ethnography of contemporary India which is sensitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195640527
• ISBN13: 9780195640526
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"