[PDF] Political Imaginaries In Twentieth Century India eBook

Author : Mrinalini Sinha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 135023978X

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This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th century India. Representing the first attempt to grasp the shifting modes and meanings of the 'political' in India, this book explores forms of mass protest, radical women's politics, civil rights, democracy, national wealth and mobilization against the indentured-labor system, amongst other themes. In linking 'the political' to shifts in historical temporality, Political Imaginaries in 20th century India extends beyond the interdisciplinary arena of South Asian studies to cognate late colonial and post-colonial formations in the twentieth century and contribute to the 'political turn' in scholarship.

Author : Mrinalini Sinha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1350239798

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This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th century India. Representing the first attempt to grasp the shifting modes and meanings of the 'political' in India, this book explores forms of mass protest, radical women's politics, civil rights, democracy, national wealth and mobilization against the indentured-labor system, amongst other themes. In linking 'the political' to shifts in historical temporality, Political Imaginaries in 20th century India extends beyond the interdisciplinary arena of South Asian studies to cognate late colonial and post-colonial formations in the twentieth century and contribute to the 'political turn' in scholarship.

Author : Rama Sundari Mantena
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009339540

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Argues for a nuanced understanding of regionalism in India shaped by debates over representation, rights, political reforms and federalism.

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231152221

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"The Imaginary Institution of India is the first major collection of Sudipta Kaviraj's essays and as such, will be received with great curiosity and attention."-Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles --

Author : R. Mantena
Publisher : Springer
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1137011920

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This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India.

Author : Ali Raza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108481841

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Raza traces the anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries in the context of Communist Internationalism during the last decades of the British Raj.

Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0231152205

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This book considers the politics of the Protestant Unionist Loyalist population in Northern Ireland during and following the peace process, and the political positioning of the main organizations representing organizations representing them as they inch towards a post-conflict society. Throughout the contemporary period, unionism has remained multilayered in its responses to key political events, sometimes reacting in complex and fractured ways that make it difficult for those outside that world to comprehend. One central question, however, remains. However, remains. How, if at all, has unionism changed following the political accord and the establishment of devolved government? The book sets out in detail how senses of identity and political processes are understood within unionism and how unionists and loyalists interpret these as a basis for social and political action. Using a wide range of sources the book highlights how new (and often competing) political discourses emerging from within have caused the reorganization of unionism, especially in response to those political groupings, which became known as `new loyalism' and `new unionism'. The book further investigates the dynamics behind the social and political fractures within unionism, identifying various fractions within contemporary unionism and loyalism and suggesting reasons for the flux within unionist politics.

Author : Bernard Bate
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503628663

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Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.

Author : Pritipuspa Mishra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108425739

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Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2008-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691133430

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It historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema.