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Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinuism : Public Uses of Religion in Western India
Publication details: Dehra Dun Permanent Black 2003Description: 306p xiiiISBN:- 8178240475
- 294.500000 KAU
Contents:
Contents: List of Illustrations and Maps; Preface; 1. THE PROMISE OF PERFORMATIVE POLITICS;
Mobilized Efficacy; Festive Moments; The Public Field; A Multifaceted Festival; Slippery Performers
2. ‘SEETHING WITH SEDITION’; Recasting Tilak’s Interventions; Martial Murti; Fire in the Belly of the Gods; A Festival in Ferment; A Whirlpool of Movements; 3. THE SPECTACLE OF DRAMA AND THE DRAMA OF SPECTACLE; Creative Patriotism; A Long Train of Etceteras; Fractured Publics Moving Scenes; Mandap Types; Spectacular Politics; 4. GANESH CHATURTHI: FESTIVAL AS PRAXIS; ‘an Antidote to Vague Despair’; Engaging with Mandap Tableaux; Synaesthesia; Pleasure-Principles; Society of the Spectator; Vitality; The Immersion Procession; The’Saffronisation’ of Public Space; 5. MANDAL, MEDIA, AND THE MARKET; Gods and Goods; The Business of Religion; Marking the Event; Overview of the Three Rounds; Assessing the Competition; 6. OPEN SECRETS;
Contemporary Political Culture in Maharashtra; The Eye of the Tiger; Street Poetics; Sainik Spectacles
An Art of Stage-craft or State-craft?; Variant Versionings of the Nation; Spectacles and Spectators; 7. NUCLEAR REACTIONS; Bombs and the Nation; Gods, Bombs and the Social Imaginary; Explosive Scenes; The Destroyer of Worlds; 8. A NATION OF MAGIC MIRRORS; National or Natural?; Envisaging the Nation; Heroic Figures / Iconic Events / Space and Territory / Gendered Tropes of the Nation / Perceptions of the Other / Future Horizons / Modern Totems and Metaphors; Homing In; 9.
AN IMPERFECT OSMOSIS; Glossary and Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index
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National Law School | Library Compactors | 294.5 KAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 20264 |
Contents: List of Illustrations and Maps; Preface; 1. THE PROMISE OF PERFORMATIVE POLITICS;
Mobilized Efficacy; Festive Moments; The Public Field; A Multifaceted Festival; Slippery Performers
2. ‘SEETHING WITH SEDITION’; Recasting Tilak’s Interventions; Martial Murti; Fire in the Belly of the Gods; A Festival in Ferment; A Whirlpool of Movements; 3. THE SPECTACLE OF DRAMA AND THE DRAMA OF SPECTACLE; Creative Patriotism; A Long Train of Etceteras; Fractured Publics Moving Scenes; Mandap Types; Spectacular Politics; 4. GANESH CHATURTHI: FESTIVAL AS PRAXIS; ‘an Antidote to Vague Despair’; Engaging with Mandap Tableaux; Synaesthesia; Pleasure-Principles; Society of the Spectator; Vitality; The Immersion Procession; The’Saffronisation’ of Public Space; 5. MANDAL, MEDIA, AND THE MARKET; Gods and Goods; The Business of Religion; Marking the Event; Overview of the Three Rounds; Assessing the Competition; 6. OPEN SECRETS;
Contemporary Political Culture in Maharashtra; The Eye of the Tiger; Street Poetics; Sainik Spectacles
An Art of Stage-craft or State-craft?; Variant Versionings of the Nation; Spectacles and Spectators; 7. NUCLEAR REACTIONS; Bombs and the Nation; Gods, Bombs and the Social Imaginary; Explosive Scenes; The Destroyer of Worlds; 8. A NATION OF MAGIC MIRRORS; National or Natural?; Envisaging the Nation; Heroic Figures / Iconic Events / Space and Territory / Gendered Tropes of the Nation / Perceptions of the Other / Future Horizons / Modern Totems and Metaphors; Homing In; 9.
AN IMPERFECT OSMOSIS; Glossary and Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index
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