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Against the nation : (Record no. 115761)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789388630221
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency NLS
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954 PER
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Perera Sasanka
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Against the nation :
Statement of responsibility, etc. Thinking like South Asians
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent HB
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements. Beginnings: Against the Nation and Thinking Like South Asians. I. 'Official' Imaginings of South Asia and Its Contradictions: 1. SAARC Setbacks and Thinking beyond the Boundaries of Its Nation States. 2. Seeing Like South Asians: Moving beyond Narrow National Frames. 3. The Idea of South Asia: Beyond the Intellectual Dependence on the Statist Perspective. 4. Anxieties of SAARC: An Experiential Reading through South Asian University. 5. South Asia: Between Dream and Actuality. II. 'Unofficial' Reimagining of South Asia: 6. Beyond History, against the Present: Preliminary Thoughts on Reimagining 'South Asia'. 7. An Emotive-Intellectual Inclination to another South Asia! 8. Localising South Asia, Theoretically. 9. 'South Asia' as an Idea and a Problem of Modernity. III. Towards a South Asian Knowledge System: 10. In Defence of 'Area Studies' in South Asia. 11. Reclaiming Social Sciences and Humanities: Notes from South Asia. 12. Anthropological South Asia: Thinking through Utopias Amidst Intellectual Hegemonies. 13. Universities, Classrooms and Intellectuals: The Struggle to Create a South Asian Knowledge System. 14. Buddhist Categories, Contemporary World and Sociology: Incomplete Thoughts towards Possibilities of Social Theory and Modes of Thinking in South Asia. 15. Bringing the Thinking of Jiddu Krishnamurti into Politics. 16. Thinking of Myth and Folklore in the Twenty-first Century. IV. South Asia in Popular Politics: 17. Online South Asia and Its Mediated Politics. 18. A Melodramatic South Asia: Perusing a Performative-scape. 19. In the Frame of the Popular Cinema Despite the Hegemony of Hindi. 20. The Sound of Silence: Of the Shrinking Public Sphere in South Asia. 21. Reformulating South Asia: Artists' Travels and Possibilities of a New Cartography. 22. The Cultural Politics of Hatred in South Asia. Index. Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Civilization - South Asia
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Materials specified (bound volume or other part) Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last checked out Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification HB     National Law School National Law School 26.12.2019 Purchased 1299.00 1 954 PER 37880 16.04.2021 11.03.2020 26.12.2019 BOOKs