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Shahnaz Rouse teaches Sociology at Sarah Lawrence College, New York. She is the author of various articles on women, religion, nationalism and the State which have been published in South Asia, the
Sunaina Marr Maira is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies in the English and Anthropology Departments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; she is the co-editor of Contours of the
Geeta Patel is the Director of UVA in India and an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. She has published widely on the collusive conundrums posed by bringing finance, science, sexual
