Ashutosh Varshney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ashutosh Varshney

“Cultivating Democracy” by @MukulikaB was recently published in the Modern South Asia Series I edit for Oxford University Press, New York | Her book launch with two fabulous commentators — Veena Das and Thomas Hansen — should be hugely interesting | Event details below | https://twitter.com/LSEAnthropology/status/1486353246205579264

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RIP Paul Brass! Your “Theft of an Idol” and “Language, Religion and Politics in North India” were seminal, shaping scholarship and leaving a huge impact.

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If you thought Carole King sang “you make me feel like a natural woman” the best, try this version by Aretha Franklin| Kennedy Center Honors ... https://t.co/jnLPnjI8S7 via @YouTube

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@saumjha @_adasgupta @AdeelMalikOx @RinchanMirza Shandana Khan Mohmand’s “Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy under Inequality in Rural Pakistan”.

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Happy to announce the publication of “Capacity beyond Coercion” by Susan Ostermann in the Modern South Asia Series that I edit for Oxford University Press, New York. https://t.co/wCiN67PBlA

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Happy to announce the publication of Chris Clary's "The Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia" in my Modern South Series, Oxford University Press, New York | @clary_co | https://t.co/TKtG8COZqx

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Happy to announce the publication of "Patching Development" by @RajeshVeeraa in my Modern South Asia Series, Oxford University Press, New York | Innovative account of how technology can help deliver welfare benefits to marginalized citizens | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/patching-development-9780197567821?lang=en&cc=us#

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Aretha Franklin sings Carole King’s “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman” and brings President Obama To Tears| (2/n) https://t.co/APPVWXxeTT via @YouTube

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@dhume @KS1729 @mazdaki @razibkhan @CafeEconomics @saliltripathi Yes, as Salil says, Galbraith’s term “functioning anarchy” comes closest. But note that Samuel Huntington, in his classic “Political Order in Changing Societies”, provided the first big political science hypothesis for why India, despite its many diversities, was governable.(1/n)

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Pleased to announce the publication of "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" by Ijlal Naqvi in the Modern South Asia Series, edited by me, for Oxford University Press, New York. https://t.co/XOUNMMOzpE