232 research outputs found
Colonial and Postcolonial Histories: comparative reflections on the legacies of empire
human development, culture
In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century
Also CSST Working Paper #121.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51312/1/548.pd
From little king to landlord: property, law and the gift under permanent settlement
This paper concerns the set of issues surrounding the
imposition in south India of a Permanent Settlement in 1803 for the
local "nobility" -- the "ancient zamindars and polygars." I focus
here on the "little kings" themselves, their transformation into
"landlords", and the implications of the new political economy for the
old political logic in which law, property, and the state were linked
in very different ways. I look in particular at the problems
concerning "alienation" under the Permanent Settlement, the fact that
landlords, in contravention of the principles of profit and
management, continued to make gifts of land. I conclude by examining
the implications of my narratives for a consideration of colonial
state and society, with respect in particular to the praxis of culture
and the discourse of law. I demonstrate that all colonial
transformations were, for inherent structural reasons, incompletely
realized
The Invention of Caste: Civil Society in Colonial India
Also CSST Working Paper #11.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51136/1/368.pd
Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact
Also CSST Working Paper #16.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51143/1/375.pd
The Original Caste: Power, History, and Hierarchy in South Asia
Also CSST Working Paper #10.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51135/1/367.pd
The pasts of a PÄlaiyakÄrar : the ethnohistory of a south Indian little king
This paper examines a text which is the family history of a line of south Indian "little kings," or pÄlaiyakÄrars. Beginning with a discussion of different modes of history, I analyze this text as both a statement of a particular history and a cultural representation of a more general modality of history. As a particular history, this text enables me to talk about conceptions of royal appropriateness and sovereignty, of political relations, and of kingly privileges; as a cultural form the text provides clues about the relations of these cultural conceptions to a structural form of narrative emplotment with all its underlying assumptions about time, causation, and process. Finally, I consider how a hermeneutical exercise of this sort is very important for Western analysts who wish to reconstruct the "history" of south Indian politics
Culture/Power/History: Series Prospectus
Also CSST Working Paper #23.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51154/1/386.pd
Constrained Multistate Sequence Design for Nucleic Acid Reaction Pathway Engineering
We describe a framework for designing the sequences of multiple nucleic acid strands intended to hybridize in solution via a prescribed reaction pathway. Sequence design is formulated as a multistate optimization problem using a set of target test tubes to represent reactant, intermediate, and product states of the system, as well as to model crosstalk between components. Each target test tube contains a set of desired âon-targetâ complexes, each with a target secondary structure and target concentration, and a set of undesired âoff-targetâ complexes, each with vanishing target concentration. Optimization of the equilibrium ensemble properties of the target test tubes implements both a positive design paradigm, explicitly designing for on-pathway elementary steps, and a negative design paradigm, explicitly designing against off-pathway crosstalk. Sequence design is performed subject to diverse user-specified sequence constraints including composition constraints, complementarity constraints, pattern prevention constraints, and biological constraints. Constrained multistate sequence design facilitates nucleic acid reaction pathway engineering for diverse applications in molecular programming and synthetic biology. Design jobs can be run online via the NUPACK web application
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