Anand Singh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3640374 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anand Singh |
| PRENOMES | Anand |
| SOBRENOME | Singh |
| ASSINATURA | SINGH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3607-4303 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Buddhist Landscape of Pithiā Pahār-Ghurhupur (District Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Resurgence of Malthusianism Through Billionaire Bullies
As the world surges ahead toward an era of an apparent different situation of world politics under Donald Trump, there appear to be juxtaposing hopes and fears about what to expect as Trump 2.0 unfolds. The latest American presidential election of 2024 was fought on the basis of 'politics, morality, ethics and righteousness,' with both Republicans and Democrats claiming to be the custodians of this fervor. Although the former won convincingly, th…
Origin of Nālandā Mahāvihāra
Following the discovery of ruins of Nālandā Mahāvihāra, multiple questions were raised, a plethora of speculations were made, and stifling conjectures were advanced about the origin, evolution, and decline of the greatest academic institution of the world. Multiple excavations through the years have yielded a lot of information about the structures and functions of the Mahāvihāra, which are well corroborated by the literary evidences. Though the …
Giriyaka Hilltop Buddhist Monastic Complex (Rajgir)
The paper deals with the study of the hilltop Buddhist complex known as Giriyaka at Rājgir, Nālandā district of Bihar, India. This site was first noticed by the archaeologists of the colonial period. A M Broadley, Francis Buchanan, Malcom Kittoe, Alexander Cunningham, etc., surveyed and explored the site to identify Buddhist monastic artefacts and remains. The archaeological landscape of Giriyaka offers multi phases linear development of Buddhism…
Dominant and co-cultural groups in Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria
Cultural interactions in many African communities are often between historically dominant groups and co-cultures. The existence of a co-cultural group is normally a product of migration. The cultural setup of Kabba community is made up of two groups: 13 Kabba clans and Omodo clan. While the dominant 13 Kabba clans enjoy wide privileges, the story is different for the co-culture – the Omodo clan – with a history of exclusion. This study examines t…
Embodying a Preparedness to Die
Often referred to as the custodians of nature, the Bishnois have been taking initiatives to curb the illegal hunting/poaching of animals such as the blackbuck and the chinkara that are fully covered under the provisions of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act (WLPA, 1972). From within the realms of their philosophical engagement with nature, the Bishnois imagine the law offenders from hunting communities, such as Ban Bawri and Bhil, and those who c…
The Pravasi Bharati Divas and India’s diaspora outreach through the ‘economy of affection’
This paper is a critique of India’s highly selective current foreign policy engagement among its diaspora populations, with special reference to medical graduates from the South African Indian diaspora. It begins from the realistic position that India cannot possibly be expected to accommodate the needs of all of its 25 million diaspora spread out in the different countries in which they are resident. But they can, as respondents for this project…
Skills Transfer in the Context of Migration
This paper is about the notion of skills transfer in South Africa and the influences that emanate from outside the country. It takes the position that while the concept is recent, skills transfers actually predate its introduction into academic discourse. This is because the skills that slaves and indentured labourers carried with them across continents were not ascribed with the recognition it deserved. The discussion here emphasizes that slaver…
Social Discourse, Comfort Zones and the Globalising World
This paper is about conversations and opinions of Indian medical personnel who are working outside and inside South Africa. It covers the views of two groups: of medical general practitioners and medical specialists. The first group, with whom interviews were done as casual conversations individually and collectively, were employed outside the country. They were in the age group beyond 60 years of age, while the group inside the country were belo…
From Ritualism to Vedanta
Against the tide of ‘justifiable discrimination’
South Africans voted for their first democratically elected government on 27 April 1994, with the belief that economic opportunities, accessibility to political office as well as to educational facilities would no longer be based upon criteria that are racialised. The hope was entrenched in the African National Congress's Freedom Charter of 1955 that was devised as a working framework for post-apartheid South Africa. Couched in the most non-racia…
From Ritualism to Vedanta
The rise of Vedanta (a non-sectarian based system of higher philosophical teaching) through the increasing institutionalisation of the Hindu religion is gradually replacing the older version of ritualism sustained through Brahmanism – the upper/priestly caste domination of sacred ceremonies in India and its diaspora populations. This article is based on an historical reconstruction of Hinduism in South Africa, covering past practices and contempo…
Reculturalisation through the Old Media
Domestic Arrangements and Fictive Kinship among Nigerian Migrants in Central Durban, South Africa
The PBD Africa
PIOs in South Mrica
Voluntary Associations and Remittances among Nigerian Migrants Living in Central Durban
Voluntary Associations and Remittances among Nigerian Migrants Living in Central Durban
In recent years there has been a surge in interest regarding the impact of migration and specifically remittances that migrants send home to help their families or for development in their communities of origin. This paper is based on research conducted among 50 Nigerian migrants in Durban. It produces insights into the highly heterogeneous impact of remittances on Nigerians families, communities and the role that voluntary associations play in t…
Towards an Anthropology of Relevance in the 21st Century
South African Indian migration in the twenty-first century
This paper is inspired by three issues, namely ongoing research on South Africans of Indian origin, the anecdotal evidence that accumulates through ongoing discussions on a casual level with such people and the increasing interest among researchers about how globalization and transnational movements are impacting upon identity formation among minorities who are seeking employment or a new life in the developed economies of the ‘big five’ English-…
A Critical Evaluation of Attitudes towards Nuclear, Joint and Extended Family Structures among People of Indian Origin in Durban, South Africa
This reflexive paper is based on research that was carried out between November 2006 and January 2007 among people of Indian origin now living in Durban-a metropolis situated on the east coast of South Africa. Its intention is to compare the evidence that was gathered during this period with research that was done during the decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s on attitudes towards family and household living arrangements among Indians in this c…
A Historical Reconsruction of Political, Social and Economic Challenges among people of Indian Origin in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This paper is a brief historical reconstruction, from already widely established research, of political events that shaped and determined the nature of Indian involvement in South African politics and the identity issues that prevailed among them from their first arrival in 1860. It takes the position that through diversity among Indians, brought about by class, caste, language and religion, political struggles and identities among Indians were i…
Years after Hilda Kuper
The Hindustani community of South Africa was researched and written about by Hilda Kuper in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her papers was on marriage within the orthodox (Sanathanist) segment of this population. This paper revisits the issues that she focused upon then (in 1955) by providing a critique and an updated account of courtships and relationships among Hindustani couples in Durban. It focuses upon the changes that have taken in the ways in…
The Post-Apartheid Classroom
The PBD Africa
A Decision Theoretic Model of Public Opinion
Why do individuals support the public policies they do? We argue that individuals can have quite sophisticated policy preferences and that not correctly modeling those preferences can lead to critically misspecified empirical models. To substantiate this position we derive and test a decision‐theoretic model that relies upon three critical assumptions: (1) policies affect the provision of multiple goods about which individuals care; (2) individua…
The PBD Africa
South African Indian migration in the twenty-first century
This paper is inspired by three issues, namely ongoing research on South Africans of Indian origin, the anecdotal evidence that accumulates through ongoing discussions on a casual level with such people and the increasing interest among researchers about how globalization and transnational movements are impacting upon identity formation among minorities who are seeking employment or a new life in the developed economies of the ‘big five’ English-…
Variation and fluidity in household composition in phoenix, Durban
(1996). Variation and fluidity in household composition in phoenix, Durban. Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 97-116
Variation and Fluidity in Household Composition in Phoenix, Durban
INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to analyze the structural characteristics of a group of Indian households which do not conform to the conventional notion of patrilineal joint family. It attempts to delineate the variations in lower class compositions in an urban Indian dominated residential area, and to contribute to the ethnographic landscape of South Africa's lower class domestic formations. I emphasize this particular racial category…
Finding a New School in Post-apartheid South Africa
A Decision Theoretic Model of Public Opinion
A Decision Theoretic Model of Public Opinion
Why do individuals support the public policies they do? We argue that individuals can have quite sophisticated policy preferences and that not correctly modeling those preferences can lead to critically misspecified empirical models. To substantiate this position we derive and test a decision‐theoretic model that relies upon three critical assumptions: (1) policies affect the provision of multiple goods about which individuals care; (2) individua…
Capitalising on privilege
This paper is an ethnographic account of fieldwork that began in 1999 when African squatter camps in the Greater Durban metropolitan area accommodated people almost equal in number to the settled tax-paying Indian residents in the vicinity. While their numbers were seen as an almost destabilising factor in the region, and prompted many to label them as ‘land invaders’, others saw a window of opportunity opening up for them by virtue of their posi…
Towards a Theory of National Consciousness
This article is a by-product of research carried out on the interface between African isiZulu-speaking primary school learners and mainly English-speaking teachers of Indian origin. This took place in six schools in Indian-dominated residential areas, situated in five suburbs of Durban, South Africa. It is an attempt to create a theoretical framework out of two issues: ethnographic data from fieldwork with teachers in schools in the city of Durba…
The Post-Apartheid Classroom
The History of Crime Among People of Indian Origin in South Africa
This paper is about stimulating an interest that has been inadequately researched by scholars who study people of Indian origin in different parts of the world. Its focus is on crime and what might be viewed as unsociable behaviour, particularly in the countries where they have settled from the nineteenth century, mainly as indentured labourers. We retrace through a brief historical overview, the paradigms that have been used since the middle of …
The Future of Indian-Owned Agricultural Land in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A Historical Reconsruction of Political, Social and Economic Challenges among people of Indian Origin in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This paper is a brief historical reconstruction, from already widely established research, of political events that shaped and determined the nature of Indian involvement in South African politics and the identity issues that prevailed among them from their first arrival in 1860. It takes the position that through diversity among Indians, brought about by class, caste, language and religion, political struggles and identities among Indians were i…
Years after Hilda Kuper
The Hindustani community of South Africa was researched and written about by Hilda Kuper in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her papers was on marriage within the orthodox (Sanathanist) segment of this population. This paper revisits the issues that she focused upon then (in 1955) by providing a critique and an updated account of courtships and relationships among Hindustani couples in Durban. It focuses upon the changes that have taken in the ways in…
South African Indian migration in the twenty-first century
This paper is inspired by three issues, namely ongoing research on South Africans of Indian origin, the anecdotal evidence that accumulates through ongoing discussions on a casual level with such people and the increasing interest among researchers about how globalization and transnational movements are impacting upon identity formation among minorities who are seeking employment or a new life in the developed economies of the ‘big five’ English-…
A Critical Evaluation of Attitudes towards Nuclear, Joint and Extended Family Structures among People of Indian Origin in Durban, South Africa
This reflexive paper is based on research that was carried out between November 2006 and January 2007 among people of Indian origin now living in Durban-a metropolis situated on the east coast of South Africa. Its intention is to compare the evidence that was gathered during this period with research that was done during the decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s on attitudes towards family and household living arrangements among Indians in this c…
Towards an Anthropology of Relevance in the 21st Century
Voluntary Associations and Remittances among Nigerian Migrants Living in Central Durban
Voluntary Associations and Remittances among Nigerian Migrants Living in Central Durban
In recent years there has been a surge in interest regarding the impact of migration and specifically remittances that migrants send home to help their families or for development in their communities of origin. This paper is based on research conducted among 50 Nigerian migrants in Durban. It produces insights into the highly heterogeneous impact of remittances on Nigerians families, communities and the role that voluntary associations play in t…
The PBD Africa
PIOs in South Mrica
Reculturalisation through the Old Media
Domestic Arrangements and Fictive Kinship among Nigerian Migrants in Central Durban, South Africa
From Ritualism to Vedanta
Against the tide of ‘justifiable discrimination’
South Africans voted for their first democratically elected government on 27 April 1994, with the belief that economic opportunities, accessibility to political office as well as to educational facilities would no longer be based upon criteria that are racialised. The hope was entrenched in the African National Congress's Freedom Charter of 1955 that was devised as a working framework for post-apartheid South Africa. Couched in the most non-racia…
From Ritualism to Vedanta
The rise of Vedanta (a non-sectarian based system of higher philosophical teaching) through the increasing institutionalisation of the Hindu religion is gradually replacing the older version of ritualism sustained through Brahmanism – the upper/priestly caste domination of sacred ceremonies in India and its diaspora populations. This article is based on an historical reconstruction of Hinduism in South Africa, covering past practices and contempo…
Social Discourse, Comfort Zones and the Globalising World
This paper is about conversations and opinions of Indian medical personnel who are working outside and inside South Africa. It covers the views of two groups: of medical general practitioners and medical specialists. The first group, with whom interviews were done as casual conversations individually and collectively, were employed outside the country. They were in the age group beyond 60 years of age, while the group inside the country were belo…
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