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UNINA9910954908903321 |
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Autore |
Ciotti Manuela |
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Titolo |
Retro-modern India : forging the low-caste self / / Manuela Ciotti |
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New Delhi, : Routledge, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-70441-8 |
1-136-70442-6 |
0-203-81405-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 p.) |
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Collana |
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Exploring the political in South Asia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Chamà„r (South Asian people) - India - History |
India Politics and government 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Retro-modern India; Copyright Page; Contents; Orthography and Transliteration; Glossary of Selected Terms; Foreword by Mukulika Banerjee; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Chamar Modernity: Progressing into the Past; Chapter 2. 'Today We Can Touch Anything': Reflections on the Crux of Identity and Political Economy; Chapter 3. Ethnohistories behind Local and Global Bazaars: Chronicle of a Weaving Community and its Disappearance; Chapter 4. 'We Used to Live Like Animals': Education as a Self- and Community-engineering Process |
Chapter 5. Nonrational Modernity? Religious Agency, Science and SpiritsChapter 6. Beyond the Vote: Politics as Sociality, Imagination and Identity; Chapter 7. The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-naked one: Gendering Retro-modernity; Chapter 8. The Politics of Indian Modernity; Bibliography; About the Author; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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On the changing perrspective of Chamars in modern times; a study. |
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