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Chapter 1. Introduction PART I: THE STATE FROM CENTER TO MARGINS Chapter 2. Beyond State Control: How law enforcement disempowerment shapes crime and punishment in India Chapter 3. “We Care for You”: Traffic rules, police authority, and technological reform in Hyderabad, India Chapter 4. Multiple Modernities and Multiple Traditions: Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship Debates in Postcolonial India Chapter 5. Veiled Sociology: The Epistemologies of Purdah in Gender Segregated Ethnography PART II: DISPOSSESSION, LABOR, AND RESISTANCE Chapter 6. Dalits and Dispossession: A Comparison (reprint of published article) Chapter 7. Market Reforms and Popular Mobilizations: The Politics of Resource Extraction in Bangladesh Chapter 8. “(Hindu) Workers of India, Unite!”: How Class Politics Shape Hindutva’s Ascent in India Transparent Intrusions: Ethiopian Labor, Indian Textiles, and Global Markets PART III: CULTURE, EMBODIMENT, AND EVERYDAY LIFE Chapter 9. “Bodybuilding does not need American certifications”: Global Fitness Culture in Contemporary Bengal Chapter 10. Of Tigers and Temples: The Jaffna Caste System in Transition During the Sri Lankan Civil War Chapter 11. Living on the Fault Lines: Women’s Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Post-Disaster Nepal Chapter 12. “Give in, cut your hair…or it makes you a very strong person”: Sikh Americans and Performing Embodied Identity as Belonging and Resistance Chapter 13. Afterword
