Contents
Advisory board members xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Diacritic character table xv
Introduction by Rukmini Bhaya Nair 1
1 Classical heritages: Databases of memory 19
Atma (atma) by TRS Sharma
Ahimsa (ahinsa/hinsa/satya/asatya/santi) by Gangeya Mukherji
Artha (artha) by Mohini Mullick
Aryan (aryan)/Dravidian by Lakshmi Subramaniam
Asmita (asmita) by Sanjay Palshikar
Bhava (bhava) by TRS Sharma
Bhakti (bhakti) by TRS Sharma
Caste by Surinder S. Jodhka
Colonialism/postcolonialism by Ulka Anjaria
Darshana (darsana) by Sanjit Chakraborty
Dharma (dharma) by Bijoy Boruah
Dhyana (Dhyana) by Bijoy Boruah
Golden Temple by Ronki Ram
Guru (guru) by Sanjit Chakraborty
Haj by Maidul Islam
Heritage sites by A. G. K. Menon
Hinduism by Shashi Tharoor
Indian Ocean by Sanjay Chaturvedi
Itihasa (itihasa) by Sibesh Bhattacharya
Janmapatri (janmapatri) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Kama and Kamasutra (kama and kamasutra) by Gurcharan Das
Mahabharata (mahabharata) by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Mantra, Tantra, Yantra (mantra, tantra, yantra) by Ranjit Nair
Manuvadi (manuvadi) by Sasheej Hegde
Maya (maya) by Mohini Mullick
Moksha/Nirvana (mok?a/nirva?a) by Ranjit Nair
Mussalman (musalman) by Taslima Nasrin
Orientalism by Ulka Anjaria
Parsi (parsi) by Keki Daruwala
Pir/Murid (pir/murid) by S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Masood Ali Beg
Purana (pura?a) by B. N. Patnaik
Kismat/Takdir (qismat/takadir) by Shivangini Tandon and S. Imtiaz Hasnain
Ramayana (ramaya?a) by Paula Richman
Sati/Jauhar (sati/jauhar) by Malashri Lal
Sufi (sufi) by S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Masood Ali Beg
Zero by Iwan Pranoto and Ranjit Nair
2 Contemporary aesthetic modes: Reimaginings 75
Alankara (ala?kara) by Harsha V. Dehejia
Beauty parlour by Katyayani Dalmia
Bharatnatyam (bharatana?yam) by Leela Samson
Bhoot (bhuta) by Brahma Prakash
Bollywood by Ravi Vasudevan
Foto (pho?o) by B. N. Goswamy
Gana (gana) by Antony Arul Valan
Gorapan (gorapan) by Katyayani Dalmia
Gym by Santosh Desai
Hero/Heroine by Irwin Allan Sealy
Ishq/Pyar (isq/pyar) by Shivangini Tandon
Jatra (jatra) by Roma Chatterji
Leela (lila) by Leela Samson
Naach (nac) by Brahma Prakash
Nakhra (nakhra) by Brahma Prakash
Padma Awards by Vibha Puri Das
Qawwali (qavvali) by Yousuf Saeed
Raga (raga) by Tista Bagchi
Ramlila (ramlila) by Sudha Gopalakrishnan
Rangoli (ra?goli) by Sudha Gopalakrishnan
Rasa (rasa) by Hemachandran Karah
Sahitya (sahitya) by B. N. Patnaik
Saree (sa?i) by Gopika Nath
Saundarya (saundarya) by Harsha V. Dehejia
Selfie by Seema Khanwalkar
Shamiyana (samiyana) by Ira Pande
South Indian films by Uma Vangal
Taj Mahal by Timeri N. Murari
Tamasha (tamasa) by Arjun Ghosh
Vaastu (vastu) by Rajat Subhra Banerjee
Yoga (yoga) by Ranjit Nair
3 Economic mantras, media and technological change 121
Aadhaar (adhar) by Vijayanka Nair
Aspatre/Haspatal (aspatre/haspatal) by Kavery Nambisan
Benami by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Black economy by Arun Kumar
Breaking news by Pamela Philipose
Climate change by Navroz K. Dubash
Computer/laptop/mobile by Souvik Mukherjee
Corporate social responsibility by Arun M. Kumar
Cyberbhakt by Thomas Abraham
Demonetization by C. Rammanohar Reddy
Development by Pulapre Balakrishnan
Digital India by Sandeep Mertia
Green Revolution by Aditya Dasgupta
Human development by A. K. Shiva Kumar
Indian Railways by Vijaya Singh
Inflation by Dipak Dasgupta
Inheritance systems by Bina Agarwal
Jhuggi, Jhopri, Slum, Chawl (jhuggi, jhopd.i, Slum, cal) by Darryl D’monte
Jobless growth by Montek S. Ahluwalia
Land grabbing by Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly
LPG by Pulapre Balakrishnan
Mai Baap Sarkaar (mai? bap sarkar) by Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray
Mall by C. Ramachandraiah
Mandi/E-chaupal (ma??i/E-caupal) by Jeemol Unni
Microfinance by H. S. Shylendra
Middle class by Pavan K. Varma
Nasbandi (nasbandi) by Poonam Muttreja
NREGA (narega) by Reetika Khera
Outsourcing by Souvik Mukherjee
Policy paralysis by Vipul Mudgal
Pollution by Shahzad Gani and Pallavi Pant
Public private partnership by Bibek Debroy
Public health by Poonam Muttreja
Refugee by Paula Banerjee
Reserve Bank of India by Raghavendra Lal Das
Sensex by Hoshang Netarwala
Social media by P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
Start-up by Souvik Mukherjee
Tax by Saba Sharma
4 Intimacies: Culture and material culture 181
Azan (azan) by Hilal Ahmed
Badh (ba?h) by Punam Tripathi
Balti and Lota (bal?i and lota) by Shivani Chopra
Behenji (bahanji) by Ajoy Bose
Bhadralok (bhadralok) by Supriya Chaudhuri
Bhailo/Bhaiya/Ghanti/Paklo by Rochelle Pinto
Bhukamp (bhukamp) by Punam Tripathi
Chappal (cappal) by Gopika Nath
Choolah (cul’ha) by Shahzad Gani and Pallavi Pant
Coolie by Harish Trivedi
Cricket by Boria Majumdar
Cycle-wala (sa’ikilwala) by Jean Drèze
Danda/Lathi/Lathi Charge (?a??a/la?hi/la?hi Charge) by Manindra Thakur
Female foeticide by Ravinder Kaur
Food by Jasmine Anand
Godmen by Akshaya Mukul
Godrej almirah (godrej almirah) by Dipti Kulkarni
Haram/Halal (haram/halal) by Amir Ali
Izzat/Sharam/Honour Killing (izzat/saram) by Shivangini Tandon
Jagannath/Juggernaut (jagannath/juggernaut) by Jatindra Kumar Nayak
Jagran/Kirtan/Bhajan (jagara?/kirtan/bhajan) by Jaskiran K. Mathur
Jharoo/Teel Jharoo/Eerkali Chool (jha?u/teel jha?u/eerkali chool) by Susan Visvanathan
Jootha (ju?ha) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Kabbadi, Gili Danda, Jallikatta (kaba??i, gilli ?a??a, jallika??u) by Souvik Naha
Kai (kai) by Vanamala Viswanatha
Kayaka (kayaka) by N. Manu Chakravarthy
Khadi (khadi) by Tridip Suhrud
Lakshman Rekha (lak?ma? rekha) by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Mada, Nall (mad, nal) by Alito Siqueira and Asawari Nayak
Mela (mela) by Chandan Gowda
Missed call by Satish Padmanabhan
Prakriti/Sanskriti (prakr?ti/sanskr?ti) by Ranjeeta Dutta
Ramzan (ramzan) by Hilal Ahmed
Shamshan (samsana) by Ipshita Chanda
Sogadu (soga?u) by N. Manu Chakravarthy
Susegad (sussegad) by Alito Siqueira and Asawari Nayak
Stamp paper by Ramanjit Kaur Johal
Street children by Harsh Mander
Street vendors by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Temple entry by Dipti Kulkarni
Tribal customary law by Melvil Pereira
Zanana (zanana) by Nazima Parveen
5 Emancipatory imaginaries 233
Adivasi (adivasi) by Virginius Xaxa
Ambedkarite by V. Geetha
Amir Gharib (amir/gharib) by S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Masood Ali Beg
Anganwadi (a?ganava?i) by Sarojini Ganju Thakur
AYUSH (ayu?) by Madhulika Banerjee
Bhaichara (bha’icara) by Satish Aikant
Chandrayaan (candraya?) by Gopal N. Raj
Dalit (dalit) by Gopal Guru
Democracy by Peter Ronald deSouza
Disability by Annie Koshi
Dowry (dahej) by N. Jayaram
Gandhian by Sudarsan Padmanabhan
Gaon (ganv) by Jitender Parsad
Hijra (hij?a)/LGBT by Ashley Tellis
Janta (janta)/public by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Love marriage by Rajni Palriwala
Maa (ma?) by Geetanjali Shree
Madrasa (madrasa) by Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
Modernity by Kavita Panjabi
Mohalla (mohalla) by Nazima Parveen
Nehruvian by Madhavan Palat
Parivar/Samaj/Biradri (parivar/samaj/biradari) by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Patriarchy by Uma Chakravarti
Police reforms by Prakash Singh
RTI by The MKSS Collective
Shakti (sakti) by Vrinda Dalmiya
Scientific temper by Ranjit Nair
Self-respect by V. Geetha
Seva (seva) by Tridip Suhrud
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (sarva sik?a abhiyan) by Vimala Ramachandran
Sudhar (sudhar) by Tridip Suhrud
Sukh-dukh (sukh-dukh) by Aditi Mukherjee
Swaraj (svaraj) by Dunu Roy
Virangana (vira?ga?a) by Usha Mudiganti
Visva-Bharati (visva-bharati) by Partha Ghose
Vote bank by Manisha Madhava
Yojana (yojana)/Planning by Nalini Nayak and Pulin B. Nayak
6 Language and self-reflection 299
Adda (a??a) by Manas Ray
Adjust by Santosh Desai
Akshara (ak?ara) by Aditi Mukherjee
Baat-cheet (batcit) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Bhasha (bha?a) by Karthika Sathyanathan and Rajesh Kumar
Eighth Schedule by Om Prakash
Endangered languages by Jatindra Kumar Nayak
English by K. Narayana Chandran
File by Shiv Visvanathan
Firangi/Angrez (phira?gi/a?grez) by Gilian Wright
Gaali (gali) by Praveen Singh
Hello-ji (helo ji) by Maidul Islam
Indian writing in English (IWE) by G. J. V. Prasad
Jugaad (juga?) by Lallan Baghel
Karpu by Antony Arul Valan
Katha, Kahani, Qissa, Dastaan (katha, kahani, kis’sa, dastan) by Mahmood Farooqui
Khari Boli (kha?i boli) by Abhay Kumar Dubey
Kolaveri (kolaveri) by Fahima Ayub Khan
Languages and linguistic states by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Matlabi (matlabi) by Shiv Visvanathan
Nara (nara) by Navprit Kaur
Neta (neta) by Manish Thakur
Pravachan (pravacan) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Settled by Shiv Visvanathan
Shruti and Smriti (sruti and smr?ti) by Praveen Singh
Thalaivar (talaivar) by Sudarsan Padmanabhan
Tension by Anushka Rajesh Patel and Merdijana Kovacevic
Three language formula by Jatindra Kumar Nayak
Time-pass by Vanamala Viswanatha
Translation by Rita Kothari
VIP by Shiv Visvanathan
7 Politics and the political 343
AFSPA and other draconian laws by Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Atrocity by Chandraiah Gopani
Ayodhya (ayodhya) by A. K. Verma
Babu/Sarkar/Revenue Officer (babu/sarkar/revenue officer) by Tabish Khair
Border by Yogesh Snehi
Bureaucracy by Aakar Patel
Chunav (cunav)/election by Mona Mehta
Coalition dharma by E. Sridharan
Communal violence by Harsh Mander
Corruption by C. Rammanohar Reddy
Desivad (desivad) by Bhalchandra Nemade
Dharna/Rail Roko/Bandh/Hartal/Gherao (dharna/rel roko/bandh/ha?tal/gherav) by Samir Kumar Das
DM/BDO by Ashok Thakur
Dominant caste by Ghanshyam Shah
Emergency by Suhas Palshikar
Fatwa (fatva) by Irfanullah Farooqi
Ghar Wapsi (ghar vapsi) by Rudolf C. Heredia
Hindu Rashtra (hindu ra??ra) by Pralay Kanungo
Human rights by Savita Bhakhry
IAS, IFS by Yogendra Kumar
Insurgency/terrorist/jihadi/militant by Sanjoy Hazarika
Jumla (jumla) by Mona Mehta
Lal Batti (lal batti) by Manish Thakur
Lok Adalat (lok adalat) by Siddharth Peter De Souza
Minorities by Peter Ronald deSouza
Nagar Palika (nagar palika) by George Mathew
National, anti-national by Kaisser Rana
Naxalite (naksla’i?) by Bela Bhatia
Northeast India by Pradip Phanjoubam
Panchayati Raj (pan¯cayati raj) by George Mathew
Partition by Salil Misra
Patwari (pa?vari) by Ramana Murthy V. Rupakula
Peasant movements by Muzaffar Assadi
Political parties by Ashutosh Kumar
Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha (rajya sabha, lok sabha) by Valerian Rodrigues
Rape by Mary E. John
SAARC by Rahul Tripathi
Sarkar (sarkar) by Chandan Sinha and Neilabh Sinha
Schedule by Justice Suhrud Dave
Secular by Rajeev Bhargava
Subaltern by Shail Mayaram
Thana (thana) by Santana Khanikar
UPSC by Maruthi Prasad Tangirala
Violence by Neera Chandhoke
Epilogue by Peter Ronald deSouza 415
Notes on contributors 421
Index 441