Political Imaginaries In Twentieth Century India

Author : Mrinalini Sinha,Manu Goswami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350239784

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Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India by Mrinalini Sinha,Manu Goswami Pdf

This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th century India. Representing the first attempt to grasp the shifting modes and meanings of the 'political' in India, this book explores forms of mass protest, radical women's politics, civil rights, democracy, national wealth and mobilization against the indentured-labor system, amongst other themes. In linking 'the political' to shifts in historical temporality, Political Imaginaries in 20th century India extends beyond the interdisciplinary arena of South Asian studies to cognate late colonial and post-colonial formations in the twentieth century and contribute to the 'political turn' in scholarship.

Author : Rama Sundari Mantena
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009347556

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Provincial Democracy by Rama Sundari Mantena Pdf

Situated within the context of seismic global transformations of the early twentieth century—namely the two World Wars and the crisis of the imperial order—Provincial Democracy delves into the period between the decline of empire and the rise of the nation. This period, the book contends, is defined by not only the dominance of the nation state and debates over a new global order, but also the expansion of democratic participation in defining and negotiating political futures and an increased use of the language of liberalism, political rights, and self-government in colonial India. Moreover, it shifts the focus from the dominant narrative of linguistic nationalism as defining regionalism on to debates over questions of representation, rights, political reforms, and federalism. Thus, it uncovers a broad perspective on political imaginaries that anticipated democracy in independent India.

Author : Angadipuram Appadorai
Publisher : New Delhi : South Asian Publishers : UBS Publishers' Distributors
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051136367

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Indian Political Thinking in the Twentieth Century by Angadipuram Appadorai Pdf

Author : Nandini Gooptu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521443661

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The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India by Nandini Gooptu Pdf

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.

Author : Madhavan K. Palat
Publisher : Routledge India
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 1138282561

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India and the World in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Madhavan K. Palat Pdf

This book examines how India was placed and placed itself in the world during the first half of the 20th century in a period of global turmoil and set against the subcontinental contest for independence. In situating India in the world, it looks not just at current foreign policy studies, but also at geopolitics, World War experiences, theoretical and strategic approaches, early foreign policy institutional transitions and the role of Indian civil and foreign diplomatic services. The work explores history and theory with a focus on cosmopolitanism beyond nationalism. The use of extensive sources from archives in UK and Russia -- especially in different languages, mainly German and Russian -- lends this volume an edge over most other works. The book will be useful to professional academics, historians including military historians, security specialists, literary specialists, foreign policy experts, journalists and the general reader interested in international issues.

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : India
ISBN : 8178242834

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The Imaginary Institution of India by Sudipta Kaviraj Pdf

Author : Angadipuram Appadorai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political science
ISBN : LCCN:77921723

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Indian Political Thinking in the Twentieth Century, from Naoroji to Nehru by Angadipuram Appadorai Pdf

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231526517

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The Imaginary Institution of India by Sudipta Kaviraj Pdf

For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad. This collection finally presents his work in one convenient volume and, in doing so, reasserts the brilliance of his approach. As evidenced in these essays, Kaviraj's exceptional strategy positions Indian politics within the political philosophy of the West and alongside the perspectives of Indian history and indigenous political thought. Studies include the peculiar nature of Indian democracy; the specific aspects of Jawaharlal Nehru's and Indira Gandhi's regimes; political culture in independent India; the construction of colonial power; the relationship between state, society, and discourse; the structure of nationalist discourse; language and identity formation in Indian contexts; the link between development and democracy, or democratic functioning; and the interaction among religion, politics, and modernity in South Asia. Each of these essays explores the place of politics in the social life of modern India and is powered by the idea that Indian politics is plastic, reflecting and shaping the world in which people live.

Author : Milton Israel,University of Toronto. Centre for South Asian Studies
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 189521405X

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Nehru and the Twentieth Century by Milton Israel,University of Toronto. Centre for South Asian Studies Pdf

Author : Madhavan K. Palat
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367886588

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India and the World in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Madhavan K. Palat Pdf

This book examines how India was placed and placed itself in the world during the first half of the 20th century in a period of global turmoil and set against the subcontinental contest for independence. In situating India in the world, it looks not just at current foreign policy studies, but also at geopolitics, World War experiences, theoretical and strategic approaches, early foreign policy institutional transitions and the role of Indian civil and foreign diplomatic services. The work explores history and theory with a focus on cosmopolitanism beyond nationalism. The use of extensive sources from archives in UK and Russia -- especially in different languages, mainly German and Russian -- lends this volume an edge over most other works. The book will be useful to professional academics, historians including military historians, security specialists, literary specialists, foreign policy experts, journalists and the general reader interested in international issues.

Author : Sanjukta Banerji Bhattacharya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015051622572

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India at the End of the Twentieth Century by Sanjukta Banerji Bhattacharya Pdf

The Essays In This Volume Not Only Provide An Analytical Study Of The Past 50 Years Or So, But Give Suggetions Regarding The Path That India Should Take In The Coming Years.

Author : Jini Kim Watson,Gary Wilder
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780823280087

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The Postcolonial Contemporary by Jini Kim Watson,Gary Wilder Pdf

This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed during the 1970s and 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present? In twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines—history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies— and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina) The Postcolonial Contemporary seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field, such as universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; and politics vs. culture. These essays signal an attempt to reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments and do so under four inter-related analytics: Postcolonial Temporality; Deprovincializing the Global South; Beyond Marxism versus Postcolonial Studies; and Postcolonial Spatiality and New Political Imaginaries.

Author : Chandra Prakash Bhambhri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 8175410256

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Indian Politics Since Independence by Chandra Prakash Bhambhri Pdf

The Twentieth Century Is Coming To An End And India Has Undertaken A Very Difficult Journey Of Working On The Basis Of Political Democracy A Rare Exception In The Newly De Colonized World. This Story Of Indian Democracy Of The Last Fifty Years Has Been Described And This Volume Completes The Story Upto 1998 Dealing With All The Major Issues Of Indian Politics. Mandal, Mandir, Globalisation And Other Related Issues Have Been Examined In This Volume.

Author : Rosalind Parr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838146

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Citizens of Everywhere by Rosalind Parr Pdf

Citizens of Everywhere is a global history of Indian women's activism during the final decades of colonial rule, demonstrating their contributions to both the international women's movement and to the Indian independence struggle.

Author : Manu Goswami
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226305103

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Producing India by Manu Goswami Pdf

When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.