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This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture,
politics, and history - and their intersections - in eastern India
from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam,
Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic
cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and
regional-local formations. Tracking sensibilities of time and
history, senses of events and persons, and productions of the past
and the present, the volume unravels intimate expressions of
aesthetics and scandals, heroism and martyrdom, and voice and
gender. It examines key questions of the interchanges between
literary cultures and contending nationalisms, culture and
cosmopolitanism, temporality and mythology, literature and
literacy, history and modernity, and print culture and popular
media. The book offers grounded and connected accounts of a large,
important region, usually studied in isolation. It will be of
interest to scholars and students of history, literature, politics,
sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.
This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture,
politics, and history - and their intersections - in eastern India
from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam,
Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic
cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and
regional-local formations. Tracking sensibilities of time and
history, senses of events and persons, and productions of the past
and the present, the volume unravels intimate expressions of
aesthetics and scandals, heroism and martyrdom, and voice and
gender. It examines key questions of the interchanges between
literary cultures and contending nationalisms, culture and
cosmopolitanism, temporality and mythology, literature and
literacy, history and modernity, and print culture and popular
media. The book offers grounded and connected accounts of a large,
important region, usually studied in isolation. It will be of
interest to scholars and students of history, literature, politics,
sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.
In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America -
Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to
name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and
describe how the two relate to each other. This second edition to
the volume comes with a new introduction which extends and
critically supplements the discussion in the earlier introduction
to the volume. It explores the vital impact of the colonial pasts
of India, Mexico, China, and even the Unites States, on the
processes through which these countries have become modern. The
collection is unique, as it brings together a range of disciplines
and perspectives. The topics discussed include the Zapatista
movement in Southern Mexico, the image of the South in recent
African-American literature, the theories of Andre Gunder Frank
about the early modernization of Asian countries, and the
contradictions of the colonial state in India.
From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current
reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a
Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and
structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India.
Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in
India provides wide-ranging accounts of the growth and
transformations of the nation, focusing especially on the intimate
interplay of nation-state and nationalism with dominant religion.
Drawing upon the perspectives of history, politics, anthropology,
literature, film and media studies, this book explores key themes
such as the appropriation and impact of western concepts of
religion and the modern in postcolonial India and Pakistan,
corporate bids to foster faith by erecting temples, formations of
contemporary cosmopolitan religious imaginaries, the politics of
cow protection, the rise of Narendra Modi as a national hero, and
the fetish of the national in news channel debates. The book
provides important insights into the success of the Hindu-Right,
the discourse of religious-cultural nationalism, and their
ramifications for democracy and citizenship.
This book constructs an anthropological history of a subaltern
religious formation, Mahima Dharma of Orissa, a large province in
eastern India. Tracking the contingent making of a critical
community over a hundred and forty year period, Religion, Law and
Power explores the interplay of distinct expressions of time and
history, innovative reformulations of caste and Hinduism and
distinct engagements with state and nation. This serves to unravel
the wider entanglements of religion, history, law, modernity and
power. Ishita Banerjee-Dube provides a situated and critical
analysis of the different trajectories of Mahima Dharma, bringing
to the fore a clutch of empirical and theoretical issues.
Understandings of the articulation and institutionalization of a
subaltern religious order are not marked off from, but reveal the
techniques and textures of, the modern state and dominant Hinduism.
Such moves foreground subaltern and ascetic expressions and
negotiations of modernity in institutional and everyday arenas, and
further question widespread propositions of a singular Hinduism,
especially in India today. Religion, Law and Power should be of
interest to historians, anthropologists and religious studies
scholars as well as general readers interested in religion,
politics, community and state. It will be of particular interest to
students of South Asia concerned with Hinduism and religious sects,
history and law, and power and resistance.
This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the
history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a
crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the
emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant
historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting
important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste,
and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and
independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and
processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the
Indian nation.
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