Kathinka sinha kerkhoff

This article is included in an edited book by Willem van Schendel entitled: Embedding Agricultural Commodities. Using historical evidence, 1840s-1940s. The article discusses the process of embedding cash crops (in this case cigarette tobacco in Bihar, India)

This article is included in an edited book by Willem van Schendel entitled: Embedding Agricultural Commodities. Using historical evidence, 1840s-1940s. The article discusses the process of embedding cash crops (in this case cigarette tobacco in Bihar, India)

Introduction: A Common Pool of Knowledge or Academic Dependency? Academic Dependency: Some Reflections Intellectual & Structural Challenges to Academic Dependency Defining Archaeology in Ghana: A Historical Interpretation The Institutions of Higher Education in Burundi & Rwanda: Facing the Challenges of Post-Conflict Societies Malaise in Indian Academia Academic Dependency & Sociological Theorizing in the Third World: A Case Study of Akiwowos Asuwada Theory of Sociation Local Scholars, Global Academy Social Sciences in Chile (1957-1973): A Laboratory for an Autonomous Process of Academia-building Anthropology at the University of the Philippines: Examining Institutional History & Academic Dependency in a South-East Asian University Evidence, Temporality, Analytical Frameworks: Categories, Writing Procedures & Academic Dependency The Costs & Benefits of Academic Globalization: A Case Study of Ranchi (Jharkhand, India) Index.

This article explores the way in which one of the largest semi-autonomous states in India, the state of Jharkhand, is developing policies that target the youth. It also looks at ways in which it is providing room for youths to participate in processes of decision making. Studying the state government’s position, ideology and praxis in this regard demonstrates that there is an interesting process of transmission of sociopolitical power into the hands of the young in such a way that the youth is likely to become a supporter and protector of the state. On the part of the government, a great deal of trust exists with regard to youth involvement in policies beneficial to the pursuit of an ideal welfare package for the people. The state makes sure that certain social and economic benefits flow towards the youth, and this certainly helps in securing their support for its notion of a semi-autonomous state, with the belief inculcated in the youth that the future is in their hands.

This chapter analyses tobacco marketing strategies in British India. It reasons that printed tobacco advertisements mirrored the colonial environment in which smoking took place characterised by struggles between ‘modernity’ against ‘tradition’ and ‘coloniser’ against ‘colonised’. The focus is on three smokes, i.e. one hand-rolled (the bidi) and two types of machine-rolled cigarettes. After a succinct outline of previous tobacco consumption practices the remaining chapter concentrates on the first half of the twentieth century when these three relatively new smoking practices also induced new forms of advertising. All three products, it is submitted, were outcomes of ‘modernity’. Placed within a climate increasingly characterised by demands for independence among Indians, these smoking habits required advertising strategies which aimed at making these modern commodities ‘Indian’ too. While the more expensive (white) cigarettes were cast as Imperial Indian modern products that went well with ‘western’ life styles, the cheaper type of (white) cigarettes were submitted to the public as modern but ‘national’ commodities, made in India by Indian workmen and using Indian tobacco. Advertisement and branding strategies followed a rationale termed in the chapter as ‘colonisation of the modern’ in the case of the more expensive cigarettes and ‘Indianisation of the modern’ in the case of cheaper brands. Yet, despite these efforts it was the extremely cheap bidi that became most popular among smokers in India. Bidis, it is argued were subjected to marketing strategies that aimed at ‘traditionalisation of the modern’.

This article adopts a multidisciplinary approach to community integration (CI). We concentrate on CI programs for sexual minorities. Stakeholders are those nonheterosexual individuals who experience psychological distress when confronted by social prejudice and nonacceptance. The majority of Indian citizens identify as heterosexuals. We argue however that sexual orientation is only one form of selfhood and that people have multiple identities, with multiple belongings. CI programs we propose should make use of such diversity in Indian society and aim at strategic partnerships between Indian citizens with hetero and nonheterosexual orientations. The integrated and intersectional approach we put forward aims at social empowerment of stakeholders.

Introduction: A Common Pool of Knowledge or Academic Dependency? Academic Dependency: Some Reflections Intellectual & Structural Challenges to Academic Dependency Defining Archaeology in Ghana: A Historical Interpretation The Institutions of Higher Education in Burundi & Rwanda: Facing the Challenges of Post-Conflict Societies Malaise in Indian Academia Academic Dependency & Sociological Theorizing in the Third World: A Case Study of Akiwowos Asuwada Theory of Sociation Local Scholars, Global Academy Social Sciences in Chile (1957-1973): A Laboratory for an Autonomous Process of Academia-building Anthropology at the University of the Philippines: Examining Institutional History & Academic Dependency in a South-East Asian University Evidence, Temporality, Analytical Frameworks: Categories, Writing Procedures & Academic Dependency The Costs & Benefits of Academic Globalization: A Case Study of Ranchi (Jharkhand, India) Index.

Examining high-skilled professionals of Indian origin who decide to return to India to settle down in so-called gated estates or communities, which now form part of Indian mega cities’ landscape, this article describes the mobility regimes of these estates’ diverse populations in three South Indian cities and the power relations between these high-skilled professionals and their staff. We address the lacuna to study these estates as sites of human capital mobility convergence where international and regional migration and mobility patterns of the diverse groups become entangled and mutually constitutive. Combining theoretical models pertaining to skilled migration research as well as mobility studies and ethnographic description and analysis, we aim to conceptualise gated communities in a way that highlights not only the interconnectedness of local, regional, national and transnational migration, but also their correlation with different forms of (physical, social, cultural, economi...

5 Separated by the Partition? Muslims of British Indian Descent in Mauritius and Suriname Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff Introduction If we were to start this introduction by stating that India is the ances-tral home of those who call themselves Hindus, we would expect our ...

Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the different laws and sex work related social stigma. We show, in this paper, how invisible mobilities is used to strategize and counter-enact against the existing exploitative gendered socio-political-legal regimes and practices involved in sex work. Invisible mobilities refers to the way HRSWs move in order to hide their occupation from society and the law. Invisibility is at the core of all these connections: It enables HRSWs to continue sex work and avoid exclusion from family and members of their communities. While making themselves invisible permits them to continue their daily ways to earn a living, it also reinforces the same social stigma they are constantly trying to avoid. In doing so,...

Preface Patterns of migration and settlement among Indian women are as diverse as that of the overall Indian diaspora. They have shared space with men in most of the groups and streams of people moving beyond Indian borders. However, the initial theoretical and empirical models either omitted or undermined their experiences under homogenised perceptions. As a result, women's voices, experiences and their critical role in the success story of the Indian diaspora remain to be unnoticed and unmapped. Feminist epistemological interventions in diaspora and migration studies made gender fundamental to the critical understanding of migration and settlement processes and the ongoing course of identity formation in a foreign setting. However, the centrality of gender still revolved around the 'victimhood' or 'passive agents' paradigm, particularly with regard to women from the Third World. The feminist and subaltern scholarship did take note of this stereotypical representation and started articulating the voice of the 'other' woman in the receiving societies. The increasing feminisation of international migration from and among the developing societies further made the incorporation of the sociocultural moorings of the women from these societies an imperative. As the diasporas are embedded in both host and homelands simultaneously, the natural corollary is that factors from both the host land and the homeland—including gender relations and gender hierarchies—have an impact on diasporic women. Feminist inquiries suggest that migration and diasporic conditions, on the one hand, can be liberating, bringing more egalitarianism in the family and opening avenues for women to strengthen their agency and create new opportunities for themselves. However, on the other hand, it is also sometimes evident that gender hierarchy gets reinforced and becomes more rigid and traditional than in the homeland. Although standing 'in-between' the two worlds—with complex realities of unequal power dynamics of the homeland and stereotypical spaces of the host land—Indian women tend to experience conflicting subjectivities of freedom and subjugation, yet they do find a freedom for self-exploration and deliberation to conceive new identities and move beyond the fixed definitions of femininity. This volume is an attempt to capture the processes of migration and settlement of women in the Indian diaspora during the colonial as well as contemporary period v

... Children and adolescents are two key categories in the nation-building drive ... Witchcraft and witch hunting are very much practiced in the tribal areas of Jharkhand, which often leads ... The picture drawn by the status report on 'Youth Education in Jharkhand' is not much rosier and it ...

... drift apart. They are depicted as confused, rebellious, depressed, dangerously violent or facing an identity crisis. They have 'lost direction' (Prabhat Khabar 1996; Prabhat Khabar 1998a; Prabhat Khabar 1998b). Elsewhere I ...

... In the historical narratives, revolts by tribal groups such as the Mundas, Kharias, Oraons, Hos, Santhalis, and Kols are all described as “tribal rebellion[s] and revolt[s] against the foreign adminis-tration,” “alien landlords,” and “literate persons from Bihar and Bengal.” Al-though ...

This book weaves together essays on "Bihar" that study change despite adopting diverse methodologies and different perspectives. Diverse historical and contemporary change is studied across a vast region that was/is known as Bihar but presents itself with dissimilar, blurred or even absent boundaries. In the essays,  authors cross not just cross geographical boundaries, but gender, class, ethnic, and cultural boundaries in different contexts. In his way, the book as a whole presents a unique and syncretic collection of essays on Bihar.