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      The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India

      Thomas Blom Hansen

      Analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on ancient Hindu culture. This…

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      Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay

      Thomas Blom Hansen

      When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India’s primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site…

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      Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa

      Thomas Blom Hansen

      The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction. This title offers an analysis of…

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      Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa

      Thomas Blom Hansen

      Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title tells the stories of ordinary Indians…

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      States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State

      Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.

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      Saffron Republic: Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India

      Examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or new Hindutva that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India.

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      Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants and States in the Postcolonial World

      9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. This…

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      PHP 8 for Absolute Beginners: Basic Website and Web Application Development

      Jason Lengstorf,Thomas Blom Hansen,Steve Prettyman

      Embark on a practical journey of building dynamic sites aided by multiple projects that can be easily adapted to real-world scenarios. This third edition will show you how to become…

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      Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India

      A trenchant assessment of Narendra Modi's BJP government and its impact on India.

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      Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

      Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since…

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