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Territory of desire representing the Valley of Kashmir / by Kabir, Ananya Jahanara, 1970-

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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India narratives of gender and sexuality / by Puri, Jyoti

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Being Janana Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India. by Nagar, Ila

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The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America by Haulman, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : that strange, ridic'lous vice -- The many faces of fashion in the early eighteenth century -- Fops and coquettes : gender, sexuality, and status -- Country modes : cultural politics and political resistance -- New duties and old desires on the eve of revolution -- A contest of modes in revolutionary Philadelphia -- Fashion and nation -- Epilogue : political habits and citizenship's corset : the 1790s and beyond.…”
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Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.…”
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Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.…”
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Bollywood and globalization Indian popular cinema, nation, and diaspora /

Table of Contents: “…/ Anjali Gera Roy -- Bollywood Babes: Body and Female Desire in the Bombay Films since the Nineties and Darr, Mohra and Aitraaz: a Tropic Discourse / Purna Chowdhury -- Globalization and the Cultural Imaginary: Constructions of Subjectivity, Freedom & Enjoyment in Popular Indian Cinema / Gautam Basu Thakur -- Rang De Basanti: The Solvent Brown and Other Imperial Colors / Manisha Basu -- Between Yaars: The Queering of Dosti in Contemporary Bollywood Films / Dinah Holtzman -- Imagined Subjects: Law, Gender and Citizenship in Indian Cinema / Nandini Bhattacharya -- "It's All About Loving Your Parents": Liberalization, Hindutva and Bollywood's New Fathers / Meheli Sen.…”
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Haram in the harem domestic narratives in India and Algeria / by Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi

Table of Contents: “…Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.…”
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Connections and complexity new approaches to the archaeology of South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Lycett -- The Substance and Symbolism of Long-Distance Exchange : Textiles as Desired Trade Goods in the Bronze Age Middle Asian Interaction Sphere / Monica L. …”
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Linguistic foundations of identity : readings in language, literature and contemporary cultures /

Table of Contents: “…"Who is/are Seth's Suitable Boy(s)?": Reading Desirable Masculine Identity of Post-independent India in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy -- 20. …”
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Sensory Futures : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India / by Friedner, Michele Ilana, 1978-

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Sensory Futures : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India / by Friedner, Michele Ilana, 1978-

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Climate Change Governance and Adaptation : Case Studies from South Asia /

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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

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