Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in IndiaK. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal This book advances public and scholarly debates on development and globalization in new directions. It presents carefully developed case studies to show how the subjects of development are shaped by, and actively reshape, development ideas, programs, and projects. The essays in this volume include cross-cultural perspectives from Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Indian diaspora. |
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... question , ' as a problem , is constituted within Indian modernity as an argument between , at least , those who ... question of its regionalness . This is a necessary preface since it allows me to clarify how I use ' modernity ' as well ...
... question , ' as a problem , is constituted within Indian modernity as an argument between , at least , those who ... question of its regionalness . This is a necessary preface since it allows me to clarify how I use ' modernity ' as well ...
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... QUESTION The ' housing question ' was posed in the newspapers of the European working class in the 1870s . The question of the life of the poor only entered the purview of the elite during the 1832 cholera epidemic after which such ...
... QUESTION The ' housing question ' was posed in the newspapers of the European working class in the 1870s . The question of the life of the poor only entered the purview of the elite during the 1832 cholera epidemic after which such ...
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... question of the slums . Once the legal dimension was on the table , the BSS felt that the state should create homes for those who are to be relocated . Chandiwala contacted the Delhi Improvement Trust to build homes at Idgah , Jhilmila ...
... question of the slums . Once the legal dimension was on the table , the BSS felt that the state should create homes for those who are to be relocated . Chandiwala contacted the Delhi Improvement Trust to build homes at Idgah , Jhilmila ...
Contents
The Traffic in Ideas about | 75 |
Becoming Developed | 99 |
Indians | 122 |
Copyright | |
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