Handbook of modernity in South Asia : modern makeovers / edited by Saurabh Dube.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description
xii, 276 pages ; 25 cm.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
Oxford India handbooks. [More in this series]
Summary note
Contributed articles presented earlier at two conferences.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Makeovers of modernity : an introduction / Saurabh Dube
  • 1. Imperial implications. The strange death of an imperial ideal : the case of Civis Britannicus / Mrinalini Sinha
  • Can the postcolonial begin? Deprovincializing Assam / Bodhisattva Kar
  • Maladies of modernity : malaria and the making of Burdwan fever / Rohan Deb Roy
  • The mofussil and the modern : the discrete charms of Kangal Harinath / Atig Ghosh
  • 2. Probing politics. Minority and modernity : B.R. Ambedkar and Dalit politics / Anupama Rao
  • Gandhi's religion / Ajay Skaria
  • Apocalyptic effects : questions of globalization and Islam / Faisal Devji
  • A pattern for national modernity : politics in Pakistan / Ian Bedford
  • 3. Critical cultures. Ripening with the earth : on maturity and modernity in South India / Anand Pandian
  • Modern senses : of selves, citizens, nationals, and subjects / Véronique Bénéï
  • The intellectual's hidden body : affect and mood in family planning / Kalpana Ram
  • Ethno-logics : paradigms of modern identity / Townsend Middleton
  • 4. Affecting arts. Advertising in India : genealogies of the consumer subject / Arvind Rajagopal
  • Architectonic improvisations : modernity and design in postcolonial India / Jaideep Chatterjee
  • Making art modern : re-visiting artistic modernism in India / Sanjukta Sunderason
  • Afterword / Prathama Banerjee.
ISBN
  • 9780198074045
  • 0198074042
LCCN
2012323238
OCLC
761367870
RCP
C - S
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