Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in IndiaThis 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 | 75 |
Becoming Developed | 99 |
Indians | 122 |
Shelter in Modern Delhi | 143 |
Multivalent Modernities | 165 |
Development Nationalism and the Time | 215 |
Educating Entrepreneurs Organizing | 237 |
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Water First: Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities in South Asia Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt,Robert J Wasson No preview available - 2008 |
Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia Gunnel Cederl?f,K. Sivaramakrishnan No preview available - 2006 |