LEADER 02855nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910457656903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-8532-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000347174 035 $a(EBL)310334 035 $a(OCoLC)476093930 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129510 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134860 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129510 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10079910 035 $a(PQKB)10898097 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310334 035 $a(OCoLC)123415065 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38962 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310334 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159480 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523278 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000347174 100 $a19941128d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aConsuming modernity$b[electronic resource] $epublic culture in a South Asian world /$fCarol A. Breckenridge, editor 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 311 $a0-8166-2306-6 311 $a0-8166-2305-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; One. Public Modernity in India; Part I. The Historical Past; Two. Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket; Three. Upon the Subdominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio; Four. The Indian Princes as Fantasy: Palace Hotels, Palace Museums, and Palace on Wheels; Five. Dining Out in Bombay; Part II. The Historical Present; Six. Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu; Seven. Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film; Eight. Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power, and Self in an Indian Martial Art 327 $aNine. Nation, Economy, and Tradition Displayed: The Indian Crafts Museum, New DelhiContributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $aIllustrates that what is distinctive of any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. The contributors address the roles intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. The sites they explore include cinema, radio, cricket, restaurants, and tourism. 606 $aPopular culture$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a306/.0954 701 $aBreckenridge$b Carol Appadurai$f1942-2009.$0918162 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457656903321 996 $aConsuming modernity$92058631 997 $aUNINA