Imagining India In Discourse

Author : Mohan Jyoti Dutta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811030512

Get Book

Imagining India in Discourse by Mohan Jyoti Dutta Pdf

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India. Written mostly in the future tense, these discourses conceive of India through specific frames of global change and simultaneously offer prescriptive suggestions for the pathways to fulfilling the vision. Both as summary accounts of the shifts taking place in India and in the relationships of India with other global actors as well as roadmaps for the immediate and longer term directions for India, these discourses offer meaningful entry points into elite imaginations of India. Engaging these imaginations creates a framework for understanding the tropes that are mobilized in support of specific policy formulations in economic, political, cultural, and social spheres. Connecting meanings within networks of power and structure help make sense of the symbolic articulations of India within material relationships.

Author : Ronald B. Inden
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : East and West
ISBN : 1850655200

Get Book

Imagining India by Ronald B. Inden Pdf

How does the Western world represent India? In this controversial and widely-praised book, the author argues that the West's major depictions of India have deprived Indians of their capacity to rule thir own world.

Author : Ronald Inden
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0253213584

Get Book

Imagining India by Ronald Inden Pdf

This edition contains a new introduction.

Author : Sangit K. Ragi,Sunil Sondhi,Vidhan Pathak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351609166

Get Book

Imagining India as a Global Power by Sangit K. Ragi,Sunil Sondhi,Vidhan Pathak Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the various dimensions of India’s international positioning and foreign relations. Already a dominant player in South Asian politics, India has gained a strong footing in the international pecking order with the signing of the Indo-US nuclear agreement and significant support for its claim for a permanent seat in the Security Council. The chapters presented here look at myriad aspects — India’s relations with its neighbours and global powers farther afield including the US, the European Union, Russia and China; India’s policies, influences and strengths; developments in economy, knowledge and innovation amid evolving global realities as well as geostrategic equations and alliances; its present and future plans vis-à-vis its standing in the world; and how international politics is likely to emerge in the coming years. The volume will be useful to academics, researchers and students of politics and international relations as also to policy practitioners and those in media interested in Indian affairs, foreign policy and international relations.

Author : Nandan Nilekani
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : India
ISBN : 9780143417996

Get Book

Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani Pdf

Author : Richard Cronin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349203376

Get Book

Imagining India by Richard Cronin Pdf

This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated within the language of a far-off European country. It explores the work of writers from Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Ghandhi to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : India
ISBN : 019908081X

Get Book

Talking Back by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Pdf

This title highlights how the idea of civilisation formed one of the strong elements of the Indian nationalist discourse. It shows how, around the turn of 20th century, Indians began to 'talk back' and question the colonial assumptions in imagining and narrating India's past.

Author : Gal Gvili
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231556125

Get Book

Imagining India in Modern China by Gal Gvili Pdf

Winner, 2023 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial aggression. These writers imagined India as an alternative to Western imperialism—a Pan-Asian ideal that could help chart an escape route from colonialism and its brutal grasp on body and mind by ushering in a new kind of modernity in Asian terms. Gal Gvili examines how Chinese writers’ image of India shaped the making of a new literature and spurred efforts to achieve literary decolonization. She argues that multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections empowered Chinese literary figures to resist Western imperialism and its legacies through novel forms and genres. However, Gvili demonstrates, the Global North and its authority mediated Chinese visions of Sino-Indian pasts and futures. Often reading Indian literature and thought through English translations, Chinese writers struggled to break free from deeply ingrained imperialist knowledge structures. Imagining India in Modern China traces one of the earliest South-South literary imaginaries: the hopes it inspired, the literary rejuvenation it launched, and the shadow of the North that inescapably haunted it. By unearthing Chinese writers’ endeavors to decolonize literature and thought as well as the indelible marks that imperialism left on their minds, it offers new perspective on the possibilities and limitations of anticolonial movements and South-South solidarity.

Author : Roland Lardinois
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351403610

Get Book

Scholars and Prophets by Roland Lardinois Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part I Genesis of a Learned Milieu -- 1. The conquest of scholarly legitimacy -- 2. Orientalism and prophetic discourse -- 3. The struggle for institutional autonomy -- Part II Scholars and Prophets -- 4. The field of production of discourses on India -- 5. Scholarly practice -- 6. Prophetic Logic -- 7. Study of Hinduism as a disciplinary issue -- Part III Social Science and Indigenous Science -- 8. Louis Dumont and the Brahmanical science -- 9. Louis Dumont and the cunning of reason -- 10. The avatars of scholarship on India -- Conclusion: Sociology put to the test of India -- Postscript: Notes on the construction of a research subject -- Postface to the English-Language Edition -- Appendix. Multi Correspondence Analysis -- List of documents, tables and diagrams -- Sources and Bibliography -- General Index -- Names Index

Author : Mohan Dutta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030264703

Get Book

Communication, Culture and Social Change by Mohan Dutta Pdf

Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric interventions in development, disrupting the assumptions that form the basis of development. This turn to culture offered radical possibilities for decolonizing social change but in response, necolonial development institutions incorporated culture into their strategic framework while simultaneously deploying political and economic power to silence transformative threads. This rise of “culture as development” corresponded with the global rise of neo-liberal governmentality, incorporating culture as a tool for globally reproducing the logic of capital. Using examples of transformative social change interventions, this book emphasizes the role of culture as a site for resisting capitalism and imagining rights-based, sustainable and socialist futures. In particular, it attends to culture as the basis for socialist organizing in activist and party politics. In doing so, Culture, Participation and Social Change offers a framework of inter-linkage between Marxist analyses of capital and cultural analyses of colonialism. It concludes with an anti-colonial framework that re-imagines the academe as a site of activist interventions.

Author : Niels Brimnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136819209

Get Book

Constructing the Colonial Encounter by Niels Brimnes Pdf

This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period. Whereas the Indian population expected the colonial authorities to intervene in the disputes, the Europeans were reluctant to get involved in conflicts which they barely understood. In the nineteenth century the significance of the divisions diminished, a development that has long puzzled historians and anthropologists. In addition, this study addresses the larger issue of the nature of colonial encounters. The rich material relating to these disputes convincingly demonstrates how Europeans and Indians, as they sought to incorporate each other into their own social structure and conceptual universe, participated in a dialogue on the nature of South Indian society.

Author : Nandan Nilekani
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101024546

Get Book

Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani Pdf

A visionary look at the evolution and future of India In this momentous book, Nandan Nilekani traces the central ideas that shaped India's past and present and asks the key question of the future: How will India as a global power avoid the mistakes of earlier development models? As a co-founder of Infosys, a global leader in information technology, Nilekani has actively participated in the company's rise during the past twenty-seven years. In Imagining India, he uses his global experience and understanding to discuss the future of India and its role as a global citizen and emerging economic giant. Nilekani engages with India's particular obstacles and opportunities, charting a new way forward for the young nation.

Author : Satveer Kaur-Gill,Mohan J. Dutta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811973840

Get Book

Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Satveer Kaur-Gill,Mohan J. Dutta Pdf

This book looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally who bear disproportionate burdens of health disparities. Centering the voices of migrants as anchors for theorizing health, the chapters adopt an array of decolonizing and interventionist methodologies that offer conceptual communicative resources for re-organizing economics, politics, culture, and society in logics of care. Each chapter focuses on the health of migrants during the pandemic, highlighting the role of communication in amplifying and solving the health crisis experienced by migrants. The chapters draw together various communicative resources and practices tied to migrant negotiations of precarity and exclusion. Health is situated amidst the forces of authoritarianism, disinformation, hate, and exploitation targeting migrant bodies. The book builds a narrative archive witnessing this fundamental geopolitical rupture in the 21st century, documenting the violence built into the zeitgeist of labor exploitation amidst neoliberal transformations, situating health with the extractive and exploitative forms of organizing migrant labor. The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses for scholars studying critical and global health, development, and participatory communication, migration, globalization, international and intercultural communication interested in the questions of precarity and marginality of health during pandemics.

Author : Erik Sand
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190853884

Get Book

Imagining the East by Erik Sand Pdf

The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influential role in shaping the alternative new religious and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century, especially as an early promoter of interest in Indian and Tibetan religions and philosophies. Despite this increasing awareness, many of the central questions relating to the early Theosophical Society and the East remain largely unexplored. This book is the first scholarly anthology dedicated to this topic. It offers many new details about the study of Theosophy in the history of modern religions and Western esotericism. The essays in Imagining the East explore how Theosophists during the formative period understood the East and those of its people with whom they came into contact. The authors examine the relationship of the theosophical approach with orientalism and aspects of the history of ideas, politics, and culture at large and discuss how these esoteric or theosophical representations mirrored conditions and values current in nineteenth-century mainstream intellectual culture. The essays also look at how the early Theosophical Society's imagining of the East differed from mainstream 'orientalism' and how the Theosophical Society's mission in India was distinct from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.

Author : Kate Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317313847

Get Book

India in the French Imagination by Kate Marsh Pdf

Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain.