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In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of 'the public' has come
under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To
better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller
understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term.
To that end, this book surveys the modern Indian 'public' across
multiple historical contexts and sites, with contributions from
leading scholars of South Asia in anthropology, history, literary
studies and religious studies. As a whole, this volume highlights
the complex genealogies of the public in the Indian subcontinent
during the colonial and postcolonial eras, showing in particular
how British notions of 'the public' intersected with South Asian
forms of publicity. Two principal methods or approaches-the
genealogical and the typological-have characterised this
scholarship. This book suggests, more in the mode of genealogy,
that the category of the public has been closely linked to the
sub-continental history of political liberalism. Also discussed is
how the studies collected in this volume challenge some of
liberalism's key presuppositions about the public and its
relationship to law and religion. This book was originally
published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian
Studies.
In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of 'the public' has come
under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To
better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller
understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term.
To that end, this book surveys the modern Indian 'public' across
multiple historical contexts and sites, with contributions from
leading scholars of South Asia in anthropology, history, literary
studies and religious studies. As a whole, this volume highlights
the complex genealogies of the public in the Indian subcontinent
during the colonial and postcolonial eras, showing in particular
how British notions of 'the public' intersected with South Asian
forms of publicity. Two principal methods or approaches-the
genealogical and the typological-have characterised this
scholarship. This book suggests, more in the mode of genealogy,
that the category of the public has been closely linked to the
sub-continental history of political liberalism. Also discussed is
how the studies collected in this volume challenge some of
liberalism's key presuppositions about the public and its
relationship to law and religion. This book was originally
published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian
Studies.
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