Retro-Modern India
Ciotti, Manuela
Retro-Modern India Forging the Low-Caste Self - London Routledge 2010 - 292p
includes index and biblioraphy
Chapter 1. Chamar Modernity: Progressing into the Past 1 Chapter 2. `Today We Can Touch Anything`: Reflections on the Crux of Identity and Political Economy 52 Chapter 3. Ethnohistories behind Local and Global Bazaars:Chronicle of a Weaving Community and its Disappearance 82 Chapter 4. `We Used to Live like Animals`: Education as a Self- and Community-engineering Process 118 Chapter 5. Nonrational Modernity? Religious Agency,Science and Spirits 146 Chapter 6. Beyond the Vote: Politics as Sociality,Imagination and Identity 170 Chapter 7. The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-naked one:Gendering Retro-modernity Chapter 8. The Politics of Indian Modernity 247
9780415563116 695
R10.2 / C494
Retro-Modern India Forging the Low-Caste Self - London Routledge 2010 - 292p
includes index and biblioraphy
Chapter 1. Chamar Modernity: Progressing into the Past 1 Chapter 2. `Today We Can Touch Anything`: Reflections on the Crux of Identity and Political Economy 52 Chapter 3. Ethnohistories behind Local and Global Bazaars:Chronicle of a Weaving Community and its Disappearance 82 Chapter 4. `We Used to Live like Animals`: Education as a Self- and Community-engineering Process 118 Chapter 5. Nonrational Modernity? Religious Agency,Science and Spirits 146 Chapter 6. Beyond the Vote: Politics as Sociality,Imagination and Identity 170 Chapter 7. The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-naked one:Gendering Retro-modernity Chapter 8. The Politics of Indian Modernity 247
9780415563116 695
R10.2 / C494