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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954908903321

Autore

Ciotti Manuela

Titolo

Retro-modern India : forging the low-caste self / / Manuela Ciotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : Routledge, c2010

ISBN

1-136-70441-8

1-136-70442-6

0-203-81405-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Exploring the political in South Asia

Disciplina

305.50954

Soggetti

Chamà„r (South Asian people) - India - History

India Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

On the changing perrspective of Chamars in modern times; a study.