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Handbook of modernity in South Asia

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Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2011Description: 276p xiISBN:
  • 9780198074045
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.17 DUB
Contents:
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.
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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.