Defragmenting India :

Nambiar, Harish.

Defragmenting India : riding a bullet through the gathering storm / Harish Nambiar. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2012. - viii, 240 p. ; 22 cm.

Acknowledgements -- Intimacies remapped -- The covered trucks -- Manto strikes -- An Iranian exile in Sambhalpur -- Sense and sensibility -- The moor in the idol junkyard -- Destinies, dynasties, and upstart pickpockets -- The soldier who annexed three states for three daughters -- "Our Shiv Sena" -- "Dangerous like my English teacher" -- The open circle -- Do children smell fear in sweat? -- Cardamom cloud over coffee -- The instinct to upgrade -- A Moses on his Harley Davidson -- Arabs, Jains, Mammon and Osama -- A drunken RSS man in Jassema -- Invisible migrations, furtive bleedings -- Epilogue -- About the author.

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Social conflict--History--India--Gujarat--21st century.


Gujarat (India)--Social conditions--21st century.
Gujarat (India)--Ethnic relations--History--21st century.

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