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coNteNtSVOLUME 44 NUMBER 2
aUtUMN 2017
i : Editorial
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1: Borges and India
carloS gamerro
15: Pashto Landay: A Mirror of Folk Life
BIlQueeS daud
23: The ‘Expansion’ of Literary and Poetic:
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
IrfaNullah farooQI
35: Framing the Political, Rebellious and ‘Desiring’ Body: Amrita Sher-Gil and the ‘Modern’ in Painting
SuBIr raNa
54: Where Do We Go From Here?
Representations of Peace in Take this Road
NeluKa SIlva
66: Precarious Citizens, Cyber-nationalism South–South Asia’s Diasporas
darINI raJaSINgham-SeNaNayaKe
83: Human Cognitive Abilities and Safeguarding
Linguistic Diversity
aNvIta aBBI
101: Hindi–Hindu–Hindustan: The History of a Slogan
KarthIK veNKateSh
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113: State of Affairs, Affairs of the State:
State–Prostitution Equations in India
v. KalyaN ShaNKar, rohINI SahNI
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130: Pristine
NavIN SaKhuJa
IN coNverSatIoN
160: Priyanka Seshadri with
vaNdaNa ShIva
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170: Re ection: India beyond Gandhi—Adventures
of a Dhoti Man across India
INdra SheKhar SINgh
BooK revIewS
178: The Life & Poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar
tom alter
181: The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India
malavIKa KarleKar
186: Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts
NavteJ Johar
190: Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature
harINI NageNdra
195: Navigating India: $18 Trillion Opportunity
m. v. raJeev gowda
199: Guardians of God: Inside the Religious Mind of the Pakistani Taliban
c. uday BhaSKar
203: coNtrIButorS
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