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In its early phase, "Subaltern Studies" dealt extensively with the
issue of community and violence in the context of peasant
uprisings. Once the problems of peasant involvement in the modern
politics of the nation were subjected to the same critical
scrutiny, complexities in that relationship began to emerge. A new
dimension was introduced when gender and national politics came to
be taken seriously and in this volume the whole range of new issues
raised by the relations between community, gender and violence are
addressed. The question of women and the nation, especially among
minorities, features strongly in this work. Qadri Ismail examines
the claims of Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka from the standpoint of
the Southern Tamil woman; Aamir Mufti looks not at the familiar
gendered figure of the nation as mother but, from the standpoint of
the rejected minority, at the brutalized prostitute; while
Tejaswini Niranjana writes on the "new woman" in contemporary
Indian cinema. Further chapters look at women and minorities in the
context of the law: Flavia Agnes examines the colonial and
nationalist histories of the Hindu law of marriage and women's
property, Nivedita Menon critically reviews the Indian debate over
the universal civil code, and David Scott discusses, with an eye to
Sri Lanka, the concept of minority rights within modern theories of
citizenship. The issue of violence is taken up by Satish Deshpande
in his study of the imagined space within which the new Hindu Right
seeks to assert its dominance, and by Pradeep Jeganathan in his
exploration of violence in the cultivation of masculinity. In her
conclusion, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak considers the position
within a globalized economic space of the "new subaltern" - the
Third World labouring woman.
In its early phase, "Subaltern Studies" dealt extensively with the
issue of community and violence in the context of peasant
uprisings. Once the problems of peasant involvement in the modern
politics of the nation were subjected to the same critical
scrutiny, complexities in that relationship began to emerge. A new
dimension was introduced when gender and national politics came to
be taken seriously and in this volume the whole range of new issues
raised by the relations between community, gender and violence are
addressed. The question of women and the nation, especially among
minorities, features strongly in this work. Qadri Ismail examines
the claims of Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka from the standpoint of
the Southern Tamil woman; Aamir Mufti looks not at the familiar
gendered figure of the nation as mother but, from the standpoint of
the rejected minority, at the brutalized prostitute; while
Tejaswini Niranjana writes on the "new woman" in contemporary
Indian cinema. Further chapters look at women and minorities in the
context of the law: Flavia Agnes examines the colonial and
nationalist histories of the Hindu law of marriage and women's
property, Nivedita Menon critically reviews the Indian debate over
the universal civil code, and David Scott discusses, with an eye to
Sri Lanka, the concept of minority rights within modern theories of
citizenship. The issue of violence is taken up by Satish Deshpande
in his study of the imagined space within which the new Hindu Right
seeks to assert its dominance, and by Pradeep Jeganathan in his
exploration of violence in the cultivation of masculinity. In her
conclusion, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak considers the position
within a globalized economic space of the "new subaltern" - the
Third World labouring woman.
This now classic work provides challenging new ways of thinking
about nationalism, colonialism and modernity, in Sri Lanka.
Situated at the conceptual intersection of history and identity,
the essays in the volume denaturalizes the claims of the nation,
taking it apart analytically, pointing to hidden relations of power
and inequality that undergird it It is edited by Pradeep Jeganathan
& Qadri Ismail, who are internationally renowed scholars.
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Domains Three (Paperback)
Deepak Mehta, Roma Chatterji, Pradeep Jeganathan
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The papers in this special issue of Domains deal with the category
of the communal riot in India, specifically the anti-Sikh riot of
1984 in Delhi, the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1992-93 in Mumbai and the
Hindu-Muslim riots of Gujarat in 2002. The literature, both
academic and in the print and visual media, on each of these riots
is vast, but as yet we do not find a sustained effort to put
together these events of violence, much less reflect on their
common modalities. The papers in this issue mark an ethnographic
attempt to come to terms with what in India (and perhaps the
Subcontinent, at large) has been a ubiquitous phenomenon since at
least the mid-1980s - a pervasive repetition and visibility of
intra-religious warfare. The papers show that the communal riot is
both a practice and a discursive condition, anchored in
documentary, pictorial, ethnographic, narrative, and judicial
accounts. In the process the papers shed light on different
dimensions of the riot, while also revealing regularities and
diversity in its discursive formation. Domains is the Journal of
the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo.
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Domains Two (Paperback)
Pradeep Jeganathan; Contributions by Chandrasiri Niriella, Radhika Coomaraswamy
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The second volume of Domains, contains: "Selvi's Revenge" by
Mangalika de Silva; "Ethnic differences and urban neighbourhood
relationships among slum dwellers of Colombo" by Niriellage
Chandrasiri Niriella; "Towards a political economy of Sri Lanka's
'ethnic' conflict," Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah & "Broken Glass:
Women, Violence and the Rule of Law," Radhika Coomaraswamy. Domains
is the refereed, scholarly journal of the International Centre for
Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is edited by senior
research fellow Pradeep Jeganathan.
Assured and accomplished, Pradeep Jeganathan's long awaited debut
collection of short fiction is a spare, controlled meditation on
the details of inhabitation: power and inequality, friendship and
enmity, love and loss, violence and its memories. The seven
interconnected stories span a near thirty years of his county's
recent past; each traces a delicately textured frame of troubling,
telling beauty, weaving together, with almost incredible economy,
not the often composed image of Sri Lanka - a paradise isle where
'only man is vile' - but a life world, live and remembered, to be
lived in again.
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