Table of Contents

Introduction by the Editors 1. The Crises of Imperial Societies 2. Thinking the State with Bourdieu and Foucault 3. Bourdieu’s Theory of the Symbolic: Traditions and Innovations 4. The Field of Indian Knowledge in France in the 1930s 5. Literature and Politics During the German Occupation 6. Symbolic Violence and Masculine dominance in the Vichy Regime 7. Habitus, Performance and Women’s Experience in Everyday Life 8. Pierre Bourdieu and Anthropology 9. Documents and Testimony: Violence in the Bombay Riots. Index

About the Author

Roland Lardinois teaches at the CNRS, Paris. Meenakshi Thapan teaches in the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.