Chapter 1. Introduction
PART I: THE STATE FROM CENTER TO MARGINS
Chapter 2. Beyond State Control: How law enforcement disempowerment shapes crime and punishment in India
Chapter 3. “We Care for You”: Traffic rules, police authority, and technological reform in Hyderabad, India
Chapter 4. Multiple Modernities and Multiple Traditions: Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship Debates in Postcolonial India
Chapter 5. Veiled Sociology: The Epistemologies of Purdah in Gender Segregated Ethnography
PART II: DISPOSSESSION, LABOR, AND RESISTANCE
Chapter 6. Dalits and Dispossession: A Comparison
Chapter 7. Market Reforms and Popular Mobilizations: The Politics of Resource Extraction in Bangladesh
Chapter 8. “(Hindu) Workers of India, Unite!”: How Class Politics Shape Hindutva’s Ascent in India
Transparent Intrusions: Ethiopian Labor, Indian Textiles, and Global Markets
PART III: CULTURE, EMBODIMENT, AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Chapter 9. "Bodybuilding does not need American certifications": Global Fitness Culture in Contemporary Bengal
Chapter 10. Of Tigers and Temples: The Jaffna Caste System in Transition During the Sri Lankan Civil War
Chapter 11. Living on the Fault Lines: Women’s Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Post-Disaster Nepal
Chapter 12. “Give in, cut your hair…or it makes you a very strong person”: Sikh Americans and Performing Embodied Identity as Belonging and Resistance
Chapter 13. Afterword. .