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Marriage's Global Past: Introduction
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-11)The picture looks familiar to Western eyes—the happy couple cutting the cake to celebrate their marriage. The pose is classic wedding stuff— hands of both spouses holding the knife on the tall white cake. It was a special ... -
Continuity and Rupture: Pentecostal Practice, Community, and Memory in Pinochet's Chile
(Creighton University, 2017-07-03)This paper explores the penetration of Pentecostalism’s discursive emphasis on rupture and discontinuity into the everyday lives of believers in authoritarian Chile. I argue that Pentecostal memories of the dictatorship ... -
Secularization and ‘constitutive moments’: insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia
This essay proposes an argument – on the face of it, both outlandish and paradoxical – that the violent upheavals of partition, which divided British India along religious lines, encouraged trends towards secularization ... -
Princes, subjects and Gandhi: Alternatives to Citizenship at the end of empire
(Routledge, 2017-12-14)This essay harks back to the period when Bal Ram Nanda, an outstanding student at Lahore University and subsequently a government servant in the Railways, began to write history. Nanda’s first and least known work, published ...
