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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... rule , the fixing of levy payments in the hopes of ending raiding parties , and the leasing of forests for teak to build British naval ships . British rule thus harnessed the darbar's rituals for both commercial and admin- istrative ...
... rule , the fixing of levy payments in the hopes of ending raiding parties , and the leasing of forests for teak to build British naval ships . British rule thus harnessed the darbar's rituals for both commercial and admin- istrative ...
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... rule colonial subjects understood as racially and culturally different . Part of the colonial project of improvement was tutelage in the time of the European modern and its affiliated practices , beliefs , and understandings . 36 In ...
... rule colonial subjects understood as racially and culturally different . Part of the colonial project of improvement was tutelage in the time of the European modern and its affiliated practices , beliefs , and understandings . 36 In ...
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... rule . It is characteristic of this historicism that , assuming a unified and linear process of development , it placed the ' people ' it dealt with in a time behind that of the colonizers , a time that was more backward , primitive ...
... rule . It is characteristic of this historicism that , assuming a unified and linear process of development , it placed the ' people ' it dealt with in a time behind that of the colonizers , a time that was more backward , primitive ...
Contents
The Traffic in Ideas about | 75 |
Becoming Developed | 99 |
Indians | 122 |
Copyright | |
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Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India K. Sivaramakrishnan,Arun Agrawal No preview available - 2003 |
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