Conversations with the Animate 'Other'

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Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Preface

I: QUERYING EMBEDDED HUMAN NONHUMAN RELATIONS
1. Human Histories and Negotiations with the Non-Human: ALOKA PARASHER SEN
2. Imagination and Presence: Human Animal Relations and the Arts of Precolonial Deccan: SUDESHNA GUHA
3. Animal Doubles of the Buddha: REIKO OHNUMA
II. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE 'OTHER'
4. Thus Spoke the Animals: Moral lives of the Animals in the Jatakas and the Panchatantra: SAGNIK SAHA
5. Elephant Education, Linguistic Articulation, or Punishment? Gajasiksha as Interspecies Communication in Elephant Manuals of Early India: ANDREA GUTIÉRREZ
6. Of a Porcine Mother and her Tamil Children: NACHIKET CHANCHANI
7. Serpents/Nagas in Jaina Visual Imagery of India: VIRAJ SHAH
III WEAVING ENTWINED HISTORICAL NARRATIVES
8. From Earth to Form - The Terracotta World of the Non-Human: ALOKA PARASHER SEN
9. Situating camels and other animals in the Early Medieval efflorescence of the Thar: ANCHIT JAIN
10. Herds, Conflicts and Movements: Rethinking State, Rethinking Pastoralism: Deccan in Early Medieval?: AJAY VISHWAS DANDEKAR
11. "Wild ecology" of Hunting and Forest Beasts in Colonial India: British Imperial and Indian Adivasi Attitudes (1820-1910): VIJAYA RAMADAS MANDALA
IV ENTANGLED PASTS AND PRESENTS
12. Human-Nonhuman Entanglements: The Toda of the Nilgiri Hills: ALOK KUMAR PANDEY
13. Human-Serpent Entanglement in Kerala: Folklore and Myths: PARVATHY V
14. Mutable Waterscapes, Inconsistent Ontologies: Re-Cognition of Hydrosocial Entanglements in Deltaic Bengal:
SOHINI CHAKRABORTY
15. Knitting Garlands, Tying Knots: A Floral Ontology of Widows in Bengal: DISHANI ROY
16. Reconfiguring 'Agrarian Sociality' through Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Imaginaries: An Ethnographic Exploration: NABANITA SAMANTA

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