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Democracy and Social Cleavage in India Ethnography of Riots Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal c. 2012–2021

Democracy and Social Cleavage in India Ethnography of Riots Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal c. 2012–2021

This book explores the emergence of identity politics and violence at the forefront of political life in an Indian state. Through a close reading of everyday politics in West Bengal India which until recently boasted of the longest-serving elected communist government in the world the volume presents unique observations on Indian politics and its trajectories. One of the first ethnographic studies of religious polarisation and its interface with politics in West Bengal this book: Offers a fresh perspective both theoretically and empirically by using longitudinal multi-site ethnography to explain the mechanisms by which identity issues have re-emerged; Studies key policy changes political practices and series of invented traditions during periods of political transition; Examines intricate details of the micro-dynamics of the formulation and expansion of Hindu and Islamic fundamentalism and their political counterparts which carry a capacity to push away secular democratic forces from the existing political spectrum; Sheds light on the mechanisms of riots its design organisational bases and mechanisms of spread; Includes key observations from the 2021 elections in the state. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science social and cultural anthropology sociology and South Asian studies. | Democracy and Social Cleavage in India Ethnography of Riots Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal c. 2012–2021

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Historical Sociology in India

Historical Sociology in India

This book is a comprehensive study of historical sociology and its development especially in the Indian context. It looks at the works of Indian sociologists and analyses their approaches in terms of book-view (normative) and field-view (descriptive) history. The volume: • critically appraises reports of empirical surveys conducted during early colonial rule — including those by H. T. Colebrooke Francis Buchanan William Adam; • engages with the works of sociologists such as M. N. Srinivas Ramkrishna Mukherjee Louis Dumont Nicholas Dirks Bernard Cohn Yogendra Singh D. N. Dhanagare A. M Shah T. K. Oommen among others; and • shows how historical perspective has been adopted in understanding aspects of Indian society — villages castes traditions socio-cultural change education peasants and their movements etc. Presenting an alternative idea of social reality this book will deeply interest students and scholars of sociology social theory and social history. | Historical Sociology in India

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Critical Discourse in Bangla

Critical Discourse in Bangla

This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory aesthetic and performative traditions and reinterpretations of primary concepts and categories in Bangla. It presents 32 key texts in literary and cultural studies from Bengal from the middle of the 19th to that of the 20th century with most of them translated for the first time into English. These seminal essays are linked with socio-historical events and phenomena in the colonial and post-independence period in Bengal including the background to the Language Movement in Bangladesh. They discuss themes such as integrative aesthetic visions poetic and literary forms modernism imagination power structures and social struggles ideological values cultural renovations and humanism. Comprehensive and authoritative this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Bangla literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Bengali/Bangla language and literature literary criticism literary theory comparative literature Indian literature cultural studies art and aesthetics performance studies history sociology regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Bengali-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Bengal and conservation of languages and culture | Critical Discourse in Bangla

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Kautilya's Arthashastra Philosophy of Strategy

Kautilya's Arthashastra Philosophy of Strategy

This book examines in detail the strategic relevance of the Arthashastra. Attributed to the fourth century B. C. this classical treatise on state and statecraft rests at the intersection of political theory and international relations. Adopting a hermeneutic approach the book discusses certain homologies related to concepts such as power order and morality. Underlining the conceptual value of the Arthashastra and classical texts such as Hitopdesha and Pancatantra this volume highlights the non-western perspectives related to diplomacy and statecraft. It shows how a comparative analysis of these texts reveals a continuity rather than a change in the styles tactics and political strategies. The book also showcases the value these ancient texts can bring to the study of contemporary international relations and political theory. This volume will be of interest to students scholars and teachers of political studies Indian political thought and philosophy South Asian studies political theory and international relations. | Kautilya's Arthashastra Philosophy of Strategy

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Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed tracing sources and genealogies which inform even contemporary descriptions of the subcontinent. Using idolatry as a concept-metaphor the book traverses an ambitious path through the works of William Jones James Mill Friedrich Max Müller John Ruskin Alice Perrin E. M. Forster Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee. It reveals how religion and paganism history and literature Oriental thought and Western metaphysics and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them. The author underlines how idolatry irrationality and social disorder came to be linked by discourses informed by Enlightenment missionary rhetoric and colonial reason. This book will appeal to scholars and researchers in history anthropology literature culture studies philosophy religion sociology and South Asian studies as well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment. | Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

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Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Promodini Varma a meticulous scholar teacher and administrator of extraordinary rigour grit and perception. It presents reflections on researching and teaching English literatures and languages in India. It concerns itself broadly with literary modernism and English language teaching and classroom pedagogy some of the core concerns of the literary fraternity today. The volume examines how the literary and cultural manifestations of modernity have pervasively informed not just much of our disciplinary framework but many of the key issues—decolonisation globalisation development—our society grapples with. With essays on William Butler Yeats Arthur Conan Doyle E. M. Forster D. H. Lawrence and Rudyard Kipling the volume presents fresh insights on familiar canonical ground. It discusses ELT and classroom pedagogy and provides grounded appraisals of teaching and translating for multilingual classroom audiences given the demands of employability and the hierarchical dynamics of educational institutions. An interview on feminist pedagogy and theatre and an essay on urban nostalgia and redevelopment act as pertinent outliers reflecting the ongoing transition to more multi-sited and interdisciplinary research and praxis. An engaging read on some of the most pressing concerns in the field this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism English language studies and education. | Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

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Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee

Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee

This book profiles twentieth-century India through the life and times of Ramananda Chatterjee – journalist influencer nationalist. Through a reconstruction of his history the book highlights the oft-forgotten role of media in the making of the idea of India. It shows how early twentieth-century colonial India was a curious melee of ideas and people – a time of rising nationalism as well as an influx of Western ideas; of unprecedented violence and compelling non-violence; of press censorship and defiant journalism. It shows how Ramananda Chatterjee navigated this world and went beyond the traditional definition of the nation as an entity with fixed boundaries to anticipate Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner. The volume also examines the wide reach and scope of his journals in English Hindi and Bengali which published the likes of Rabindranath Tagore Subhash Bose Abanindranath Tagore Nandalal Bose Ananda Coomaraswamy the scientist J. C. Bose and Zhu Deh the co-founder of the Chinese Red Army. He also published India in Bondage by the American Unitarian minister J. T. Sunderland which resulted in his arrest. An intriguing behind-the-scenes look of early twentieth-century colonial India this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history modern South Asia and media and cultural studies. | Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee

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