Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Identity, Society and Conflict - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415556120 ISBN 13 : 9780415556125

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary exploration provides much needed insights into the relationships between the dominant impulses of identity formation, cultural change, political mobilisation, religious movements and subaltern modes of communication that define modern Gujarat.

This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nalin Mehta is Joint Editor of South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) and Honorary Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University Singapore. His books include the award-winning India on Television: How Satellite News Channels Changed the Way We Think and Act (Asian Publishing Award 2009) and most recently he has co-authored the best-selling Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games. Formerly Deputy News Editor and anchor at Times Now, as a journalist he has covered pivotal events in Gujarat for nearly a decade, including the earthquake of 2001, the 2002 riots and assembly elections in 2002 and 2007. He writes a weekly column for Mumbai Mirror and its sister publications.

Mona G. Mehta is Assistant Professor of Politics at Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she teaches politics of South Asia and comparative politics. Her research examines the processes by which a functioning democracy and a vibrant civil society have paradoxically become implicated in producing exclusion and Hindu-Muslim conflict in Gujarat. She has a Ph.D from the University of Chicago where she has taught courses in social science theory and identity politics in South Asia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415556120
• ISBN 13: 9780415556125
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Éditeur: Mehta Nalin, Mehta Mona G.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible