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291 About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater (Kondo), 94–95 affective publics, 26, 163–73, 193, 257n25; bikās industry and, 211–13; effects of listening by, 207–13; following Narayanhiti palace massacre, 242–49; management of tensions within, 201–7; of the mediated diaspora, 216–20, 229–30; recognition of suffering by, 212–13; smoothness and harmony in, 200–201, 206–7, 213–14. See also FM radio; Mero Kathā, Mero Gīt program Agarwal, Bina, 68, 260n33 agency, 4–5, 10–14, 28–35, 247; āwāj ut . hāune (raising voice) as, 46, 83–86; feminist theory on, 48; indigenous Nepali forms of, 52–53; of political voice, 30–35, 167, 171, 258n36; property reform movement and, 45, 46, 61–62, 83–86, 187; provocative silence and, 29, 257nn32–33; self-conscious identity and, 35–40; in theories of subjectivity, 37. See also subjectivity Agha, Asif, 21, 126, 256n11 Ahearn, Laura, 22, 52–53, 103 Aishwarya, Queen, 6, 57, 118–19, 242–49 All-India Radio (AIR), 132 Althusser, Louis: on hailing, 69–70; theory of interpellation of, 12–13, 16, 70–73, 217–18, 256nn11–13 āmāko mukh herne din (day to look at mother’s face), 88fig., 105–15, 122; distance and absence in, 113–15, 122; at Mātātirtha pond, 88fig., 107–11, 263n19; rationales for, 111–12 AM radio, 148 Anamika (host of Rumpum Connection), 224–33, 238–39 Anderson, Benedict, 141, 167 angsa property relations, 42–44, 55–58, 248, 258n1, 259n16, 260n32; bolāune practices and, 68–74, 85, 261n35; caring for elders and, 55; class and gender in, 58–62; inalienable possession implied by, 55, 72, 259n18; mourning rituals and, 76–79, 261nn38–39; for unmarried women, 57–58, 260nn23–24; women’s movement between homes and, 63–67, 73–75, 79–83. See also property reform movement anonymity, 140, 167–68 Arya Samāj, 82 audience of FM radio, 17, 19–20, 129–30, 138–56, 237, 266n7; as affective public, 26, 163–73, 193, 200–214, 257n25; authentication of truth for, 202–5; diasporic connections of, 39–40, 184–85, 214, 216–20; as imagined cosmopolitan community, 26–27, 141–48; listener clubs of, 139–40; of Mero Kathā, Mero Gīt, 164–67, 178, 207–11; radio participation by, 25–28, 104, 127–30, 148–56; of Rumpum Connection , 225–27. See also listening aurality, 94, 101, 263n11 Avaaz.org, 33–34 Aviral, Krishna, 272n11 index 292 • index āwāj (voice), 4, 33–34, 255nn1–2. See also voice āwāj ut . hāune (raising voice). See political voice; raising voice Axel, Brian, 18, 222, 229, 270n15 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 21–22; on the chronotype of a story, 196; on double-voiced discourse, 191–92, 198–99; on genre, 192; on inter-subjectivity, 91; on words and contexts, 268n24 Basu, Srimati, 54 Bate, Bernard, 14 Bauman, Richard, 191 Benjamin, Walter, 101, 263n15, 264n31 Benson, Peter, 97 Bergson, Henri, 263n8 Berlant, Lauren: on colonization of the public by the private, 38; on the intimate public sphere, 168–69, 172, 182, 202; on the life that counts, 211 Berlin Wall, 32 Bessire, Lucas, 125 bikās (development): definition of, 181–82; dukha discourses and, 211–13; evolutionary view of society in, 189–92; language use and, 143–45; as national goal, 28, 30, 56–57, 112, 134, 159, 175, 268n22; as neoliberal capitalist endeavor, 175–77, 181–85, 189; symbol of the village in, 187 biography, 268n19 Birendra, King, 3; murder of, 6–7, 36, 40, 118–19, 242–49; pictures of, 117–19, 244fig., 249; public criticism of, 3, 245, 271n5 birthrights. See property reform movement bolāune (hailing/summoning), 85–86, 248; brother-sister love in, 68–74, 261n35; gendered subjectivity of, 36–37, 45, 49, 51, 54, 259n11; general meaning of, 47, 69, 259n10; as honor, 73–74; interpellation and, 69–73, 217; materiality of brothers’ voices and, 73; seeing face (mukh herne) and, 89–91 Bollywood films, 103, 166, 169, 186, 188, 212 Bourdieu, Pierre, 256n20 Briggs, Charles, 191 British Residency. See colonial era brother-sister love, 67–74; bolāune (familial summoning) and, 36–37, 45, 47, 49, 51, 54, 68–74, 85, 261n35; sisters’ voices during tihār and, 73. See also family relations Buddhism, 24, 259n21 Burghart, Richard, 29, 80–81, 257n31 Butler, Judith, 256n13, 256n20; on authority of speech, 72–73; on interpellation, 13, 70, 72, 217, 227 “Can the Subaltern Speak” (Spivak), 33 Carsten, Janet, 259n15 cell...
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