Copyright by Jolie Marie Frenzel Wood 2010
Copyright by Jolie Marie Frenzel Wood 2010 The Dissertation Committee for Jolie Marie Frenzel Wood certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: White-collar Agitation, No-collar Compliance: The Privilege of Protest in Varanasi, India Committee: Clement Henry, Supervisor Philip Oldenburg, Co-Supervisor Itty Abraham John Higley Robert Moser White-collar Agitation, No-collar Compliance: The Privilege of Protest in Varanasi, India by Jolie Marie Frenzel Wood, B.A.; M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin August 2010 Acknowledgements First and foremost, I wish to acknowledge my adviser Philip Oldenburg, without whose steady guidance and encouragement I probably could not have completed this project. I can only hope that this and future work justify even a small part of his effort on my behalf. Clement Henry, Catherine Boone, and Itty Abraham have also been invaluable sources of intellectual guidance; the following pages show abundant evidence of their influence. I am also deeply thankful to Ajay Pandey, whose assistance in Varanasi opened the city to me and made fieldwork one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, and to Nitya Pandey, Vinay Sharma, and Dwarika Chaube for their research assistance during the summer of 2008. Finally, I am grateful for the generosity and frankness of all those in Varanasi and New Delhi who made this project possible—those who accommodated me, befriended me, advised me, shared their views with me, gave me their time, took a genuine interest in my research, and fueled me with innumerable cups of tea and more.
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