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Retro-modern India: Forging the Low-caste Self by Manuela Ciotti (English) Hardc

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ISBN-13
9780415563116
Book Title
Retro-modern India
ISBN
9780415563116
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Retro-Modern India: Forging the Low-Caste Self
Item Height
216 mm
Author
Manuela Ciotti
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subject
Government
Item Weight
499 g
Item Width
138 mm
Number of Pages
312 Pages

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Firmly situated within the analytics of the political economy of a north Indian province, this book explores self-fashioning in pursuit of the modern amongst low-caste Chamars. Challenging existing accounts of national modernity in the non-West, the book argues that subaltern classes shape their own ideas about modernity by taking and rejecting from models of other classes within the same national context. While displacing the West -- in its colonial and non-colonial manifestations -- as the immanent comparative focus, the book puts forward a unique framework for the analysis of subaltern modernity. This builds on the entanglements between two main trajectories, both of which are viewed as the outcome of the generative impetus of modernisation in India: the first consists of the Chamar appropriation of socio-cultural distinctions forged by 19th-century Indian middle classes in their encounter with colonial modernity; the second features the Chamar subversion of high-caste ideals and practices as a result of low-caste politics initiated during the 20th century. The author contends that these conflicting trends give rise to a temporal antinomy within the Chamar politics of self-making, caught up between compulsions of a past modern and of a contemporary one. The eclectic outcome is termed as 'retro-modernity'. While the book signals a politics of becoming whose dynamics had previously been overlooked by scholars, it simultaneously opens up novel avenues for the understanding of non-elite modern life-forms in postcolonial settings. The book will interest scholars of anthropology, South Asian studies, development studies, gender studies, political science and postcolonial studies.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415563116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Retro-Modern India: Forging the Low-Caste Self
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Government
Type
Textbook
Author
Manuela Ciotti
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
216 mm
Item Weight
499 g
Item Width
138 mm

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United Kingdom
Title_Author
Manuela Ciotti
Series Title
Exploring the Political in South Asia

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