ONE MORE VOICE!

About the Book

One More Voice adds the scholarly views of Dr. Cynthia Keppley Mahmood to the chorus of protest for civil and human rights in South Asia today. Looking at the Sikhs of the Punjab, the Muslims of Kashmir, “terrorism” in Mumbai, and the dangers of research in Bihar, Professor Mahmood includes her writings and speeches 2000-2010 in this second XLibris volume. (A Sea of Orange dealt with 1990-2000.) Readers both specialist and general will fi nd these pieces both informative and inspirational, as Mahmood turns her attention to activism in South Asia and the potential for change.

About the Author

Cynthia Keppley Mahmood is internationally known as a scholar of religion and conflict in South Asia. An anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, she brings critical ethnography to the task of theorizing violence, human rights, and the potential for peace in this troubled region. Mahmood is also the author of Fighting for Faith and Nation (1996), The Guru’s Gift (2000), and A Sea of Orange (2002). An activist as well as a scholar, Cynthia Mahmood is recognized as standing up for the downtrodden, disadvantaged, and persecuted, whose voices become part of the historical record through her work.