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Retro-modern India - Forging the Low-caste Self (Paperback)
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Retro-modern India - Forging the Low-caste Self (Paperback)
Series: Exploring the Political in South Asia
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Firmly situated within the analytics of the political economy of a
north Indian province, this book explores self-fashioning in
pursuit of the modern amongst low-caste Chamars. Challenging
existing accounts of national modernity in the non-West, the book
argues that subaltern classes shape their own ideas about modernity
by taking and rejecting from models of other classes within the
same national context. While displacing the West - in its colonial
and non-colonial manifestations - as the immanent comparative
focus, the book puts forward a unique framework for the analysis of
subaltern modernity. This builds on the entanglements between two
main trajectories, both of which are viewed as the outcome of the
generative impetus of modernisation in India: the first consists of
the Chamar appropriation of socio-cultural distinctions forged by
19th-century Indian middle classes in their encounter with colonial
modernity; the second features the Chamar subversion of high-caste
ideals and practices as a result of low-caste politics initiated
during the 20th century. The author contends that these conflicting
trends give rise to a temporal antinomy within the Chamar politics
of self-making, caught up between compulsions of a past modern and
of a contemporary one. The eclectic outcome is termed as
'retro-modernity'. While the book signals a politics of becoming
whose dynamics had previously been overlooked by scholars, it
simultaneously opens up novel avenues for the understanding of
non-elite modern life-forms in postcolonial settings. The book will
interest scholars of anthropology, South Asian studies, development
studies, gender studies, political science and postcolonial
studies.
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