02740nam 2200625Ia 450 991095490890332120251117080707.01-136-70441-81-136-70442-60-203-81405-310.4324/9780203814055 (CKB)2670000000163930(EBL)692412(OCoLC)782859138(SSID)ssj0000640612(PQKBManifestationID)11411068(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640612(PQKBWorkID)10614479(PQKB)10037856(OCoLC)784947987(MiAaPQ)EBC692412(Au-PeEL)EBL692412(CaPaEBR)ebr10542403(CaONFJC)MIL760922(EXLCZ)99267000000016393020100427d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRetro-modern India forging the low-caste self /Manuela Ciotti1st ed.New Delhi Routledgec20101 online resource (309 p.)Exploring the political in South AsiaDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-56311-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ProcessChapter 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; IndexOn the changing perrspective of Chamars in modern times; a study.Exploring the political in South Asia.Chamār (South Asian people)IndiaHistoryIndiaPolitics and government20th centuryChamār (South Asian people)History.305.50954Ciotti Manuela1882423MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954908903321Retro-modern India4497631UNINA