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

• Autore: Ciotti Manuela
• Pubblicazione: New Delhi, : Routledge, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.50954
• Soggetto topico: Chamār (South Asian people) - India - History
• Soggetto geografico: India Politics and government 20th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Retro-modern India
• ISBN: 1-136-70441-8; 1-136-70442-6; 0-203-81405-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954908903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Exploring the political in South Asia.