India

Counterfeiting What? Aesthetics of Brandedness and BRAND in Tamil Nadu, India

by Constantine Nakassis

(2012) Anthropological Quarterly 85(3):701-722, Special Collections - Pirates and Piracy, Broadly Conceived.

Of India’s intelligence and un-intelligent men

by Bibhu Prasad Routray

Published in New Indian Express (21 May 2012) and Sunday Standard (21 May 2012)

To quote George Santayana, the American philosopher and novelist who carried a Spanish passport, “Intelligence is... more To quote George Santayana, the American philosopher and novelist who carried a Spanish passport, “Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.” Lessons for India from the recent episode are, thus, simple. RAW needs to find strength, even when Indo-Pak relations are supposedly looking up.

Implications of India’s Skewed Sex Ratio

by Raywat Deonandan

Recent studies have confirmed that India’s millions of missing girls are the result of selective abortion, resulting... more Recent studies have confirmed that India’s millions of missing girls are the result of selective abortion, resulting in a skewed sex ratio. This paper explores some of the possible consequences of the unbalanced sex ratio, and discusses the barriers to addressing the issue.

Working Final Draft: HUB CONTAINER MARITIME COMMERCE THE RE-EMERGENCE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN AT GLOBAL LEVEL

by Jacques Coulardeau

Since the financial crisis in mid 2008 and the subsequent downturn in international maritime commerce in 2009, recovery is slow and will take more time than expected.

This crisis and the subsequent downturn did not change the trend that was developing before, viz. the emergence of Asia led by china first and India second, of Latin America led by Brazil and of Africa without a real leader apart from South Africa. In fact this crisis and the subsequent downturn increased the trend by bringing down the USA first and then Europe. In fact apart from these two western blocks only Russia really suffered for one year or so. The other emerging countries experienced a slowdown at worst. China itself is in fact encouraged toward relying on and encouraging its national market, moving toward a consumer’s society, national consumption becoming the real economic incentive, and yet to target Asia, Africa and Latin America on the international market. The recovery after 2009 for Asian exports is up 12% for Latin America, 18% for Africa and only 5% for Northern America and Europe.

In fact the emergence of Asia has changed the world and the crisis is amplifying the change. “In recent years intra-Asian liner shipping [container shipping] has become larger than Asia-US, Asia-Europe and trans-Atlantic liner volumes.”  The direct consequence is the shift from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the Indian Ocean, with its 20% of global sea water and its 40% of global coast line. This Indian Ocean is becoming the very centre of this vast emerging area comprising China, India and the rest of Asia, eastern Africa and South Africa and the Middle East.

We are going to study this restructuring and repositioning of the Indian Ocean and Asia in the global commerce at the beginning of the 21st century. Very few people have a distinct idea of what is happening today, and for those who like plots we could say that the financial wizards who planned the 2008 crisis had not foreseen that it was going to backfire in their hands to the point of shifting the centre of global business from them to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

I will very fast look at the past up to 1433, and then at the colonization of the Indian Ocean and Asia by the... more I will very fast look at the past up to 1433, and then at the colonization of the Indian Ocean and Asia by the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English and the French.

I will then consider the strategic position of the Indian Ocean and in that Indian Ocean the strategic position of Sri Lanka for maritime commerce.  That will bring China into the picture as a major investor and stakeholder in that maritime development.

Considering the main problems of this maritime commerce which are congested bottlenecks and security, I will try to understand the new means container freight commerce and information technology based on satellite surveillance can bring to these problematic questions. I will incidentally consider the various regional rivalries if not conflicts or potential conflicts that may disrupt this development.

That will bring me to the conclusive hypothesis that China has more stakes in the Indian Ocean than may seem at first, and most of these stakes are economic and only subsequently some are social. The result anyway is the re-emergence of the Indian Ocean as the global maritime centre of human development and commercial enterprise.

Two new species of Nitzschia (Bacillariophyta) from shallow wetlands of Peninsular India

by Karthick Balasubramanian

The majority of species belonging to the genus Nitzschia are distinguished by minute taxonomic features that are... more The majority of species belonging to the genus Nitzschia are distinguished by minute taxonomic features that are difficult to observe and document. Currently, geographical distributions for many species are recognized as cosmopolitan; in contrast endemic species are poorly documented and studied. Our study describes two new species of Nitzschia from shallow wetlands across the Bangalore urban district of peninsular India, Nitzschia taylorii, sp. nov. and Nitzschia williamsi, sp. nov. Morphological analyses of these new species were performed with light and scanning electron microscopy, and the ecology of inhabited wetlands are discussed briefly. New species records from urban polluted wetlands provide evidence for broadening taxonomic and ecological investigations of cosmopolitan genera like Nitzschia in the Southern Hemisphere.

Climate Change: Why and how should we care?

by Sharachchandra (Sharad) Lele

published in Teacher's Plus, Sustainability Special, 2011

De la India a las Indias y viceversa. Relaciones literarias entre Hispanoamérica y Asia (siglo XX)

by Catalina Quesada Gómez

Published in Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, XI, 42 (2011), pp. 43-63. ISSN 1577-3388

Demotic Democracy and Its Depravities in North India, in the Ethnographic Longue Durée

by Anastasia Piliavsky

Submitted to American Ethnologist for review. WORK IN PROGRESS: PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION, BUT PLEASE COMMENT! (an379@cam.ac.uk)

This paper is concerned with the paradoxical symbiosis of patronage and democracy in North India. Drawing on an... more This paper is concerned with the paradoxical symbiosis of patronage and democracy in North India. Drawing on an ethnographic account of State Assembly elections in a town in rural Rajasthan (North India) and on older ethnographic accounts, I argue that democratic governance in North India today is substantially articulated in the demotic idiom of donor-servant relatedness, conventionally known as “patronage.” This old and widespread relational formula has a moral logic of its own, which shapes politicians’ styles, political preferences and participation and, overall, gives vernacular form to the relationship between the government and “the people”

“My Country’s Future”: A Culture-Centered Interrogation of Corporate Social Responsibility in India

by Rahul Mitra

Journal of Business Ethics (2012), Volume 106, issue 2, 131-147.

Companies operating and located in emerging economy nations routinely couch their corporate social responsibility... more Companies operating and located in emerging economy nations routinely couch their corporate social responsibility (CSR) work in nation-building terms. In this article, I focus on the Indian context and critically examine mainstream CSR discourse from the perspective of the culture-centered approach (CCA). Accordingly, five main themes of CSR stand out: nation-building facade, underlying neoliberal logics, CSR as voluntary, CSR as synergetic, and a clear urban bias. Next, I outline a CCA-inspired CSR framework that allows corporate responsibility to be re-claimed and re-framed by subaltern communities of interest. I identify such resistive openings via interrogations of culture (I focus on oft-cited Gandhian ethics here), structure (State policy, organizational strategy, and global/local flows), and agency (subaltern reframing of institutional responsibility, engagement with alternative modes of agency, and deconstructive vigilance).

Territorial Democracy: Caste, Dominance and Electoral Practice in Postcolonial India

by Jeffrey Witsoe

Comparing access to higher education in Brazil and India using Critical Race Theory

by Loni Bordoloi Pazich

Book chapter in As the World Turns: Implications of Global Shifts in Higher Education for Theory, Research and Practice (pub. 2012)

Item Numbers, Performativity, and the Ontology of the Image in South Indian Film (5.15.2012)

by Constantine Nakassis

Working Paper

Linguistic Diversity in the Knowledge Commons

by Giridhar Rao

This article appears in the newsletter "Common Voices" (no. 7). The complete issue is at http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/common-voices-7.pdf

Indigenous languages encode a considerable amount of traditional environmental knowledge -- knowledge about... more Indigenous languages encode a considerable amount of traditional environmental knowledge -- knowledge about biodiversity management. Thus, from even a purely instrumental point of view (setting aside ethical and rights-based considerations), indigenous languages need to flourish. How serious is the situation of indigenous languages? What are some of the major reasons why languages become endangered? And what can be done about it? These are some of the questions this essay will address, largely from the Indian experience.

Budget 2012-13: What do logisticians make out of it?

by SAMIR K SRIVASTAVA

Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial (review)

by Snehal Shingavi

Snehal Shingavi. "Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 58.1 (2012): 181-184.

''Dynamics of a Working Democracy: Representative Politics in a Goa Constituency''

by Edzia Carvalho

with Peter R. deSouza, Solano Da Silva and Sushma Pawar, Economic and Political Weekly, 14 (16), 2006.

India Pakistán y el fragil vínculo que les une.

by Pablo Urech

En el presente análisis nos centraremos en las volátilesrelaciones de la India con su vecino Pakistán queactualmente... more En el presente análisis nos centraremos en las volátilesrelaciones de la India con su vecino Pakistán queactualmente ocupa el 6º lugar mundial en población. Larelación entre ambos siempre ha estado a la sombra deconflictos de origen religioso, étnico, ideológico ycomercial.

Tibet Factor in Sino-India Relations

by Tej Pratap Singh

A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations

by Nirav Parikh

Influence of the history of archaeological thought in South Asia on the understanding of ancient states and empires, including the prevalence of Colonial and Orientalist modes of interpretation.

by Seetal Gahir