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Regional Modernities:

The Cultural Politics of Development in India
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K. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal
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Stanford University Press, 2003 - Business & Economics - 452 pages
This collection of essays by leading social scientists focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of “regional modernities” in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. “Regional,” for the authors, incorporates the state and other subnational and supranational social and political formations that are more or less salient depending on the social networks and development projects under consideration. In particular, the concept of region allows the assessment of large-scale ethnic, religious, social, and geo-political formations as they mediate oversimplified binary oppositions of colonial or postcolonial power and local incorporation or resistance.

Individual essays present case studies of development across India, considering the role of class, caste, gender, and ethnic and political identities in their interactions with government forces. They investigate the binding of diverse groups through large projects such as dam building and offer rich ethnographic accounts of tree farmers, entrepreneurs, government officials, women in Gandhian ashrams, slum dwellers, and atomic scientists.

  

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Contents

The Traffic in Ideas about
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Becoming Developed
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Indians
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Shelter in Modern Delhi
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Multivalent Modernities
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The Dangs Darbar
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Educating Entrepreneurs Organizing
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Rethinking Boundaries
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On Binaries and Boundaries
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Knowledge
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Two Stories
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About the author (2003)

K. Sivaramakrishnan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies and Director of the South Asia Center at the University of Washington. Arun Agrawal is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University.

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TitleRegional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India
EditorsK. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal
PublisherStanford University Press, 2003
ISBN0804744157, 9780804744157
Length452 pages
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Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
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