Background
Yang, Anand Alan was born on January 12, 1949 in Shantineketan, India. Came to the United States, 1966. Son of Yun Yuan and Heng (Lo) Yang.
( The role of markets in linking local communities to lar...)
The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less familiar aspects of colonial India. At one level, Yang reconstructs Bihar's marketing system, from its central place in the city of Patna down to the lowest rung of the periodic markets. But he also concentrates on the dynamics of exchanges and negotiations between different groups and on what can be learned through the "voices" of people in the bazaar: landholders, peasants, traders, and merchants. Along the way, Yang uncovers a wealth of details on the functioning of rural trade, markets, fairs, and pilgrimages in Bihar. A key contribution of Bazaar India is its many-stranded narrative history of some of South Asia's primary actors over the past two centuries. But Yang's approach is not that of a detached observer; rather, his own voice is engaged with the voices of the past and with present-day historians. By focusing on the world beyond the mud walls of the village, he widens the imaginative geography of South Asian history. Readers with an interest in markets, social history, culture, colonialism, British India, and historiographic methods will welcome his book.
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Yang, Anand Alan was born on January 12, 1949 in Shantineketan, India. Came to the United States, 1966. Son of Yun Yuan and Heng (Lo) Yang.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, 1976.
Instructor, Sweet Briar (Virginia) College, 1975; assistant professor, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, 1975-1981; associate professor, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, 1981-1992; professor, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, since 1992; chair department history, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, 1989-1994.
( The role of markets in linking local communities to lar...)
(Book by Anand A. Yang)
Member national board Reportory Dance Theater, Salt Lake City, since 1985. Board directors Chinese Cmty Action, Salt Lake City, since 1977, Asian Association Utah, Salt Lake City, 1980-1982, Wimmer & Wimmer Dance Company, Salt Lake City, 1979-1980. Member American History Association (professional division 1991-1993, program committee 1986-1987, 94-95), Association Asian Studies (assistant editor 1993-1994, board directors 1991-1992, 95—, council conferences 1989-1992), World History Association, Phi Alpha Theta.