Post Colonial India: History, Politics & Culture - Couverture rigide

Damodaran, Vinita; Unnithan-Kumar, Maya

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8173043817 ISBN 13 : 9788173043819

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2000

Synopsis

This book surveys and analyses the economic, political and cultural changes which have taken place in India since its Independence. It explores some of the defining moments in the history of post-colonial India, and brings together recent works of scholars of different disciplines to provide dynamic new insights into the half-century since Independence. The effects of decolonisation, modernisation, and industrialisation are given special attention, particularly in relation to the impacts felt by women and minorities both in the country and the city. The colossal effects of state projects on the environment are also considered. An important focus of the papers is examining the discourses of modernity and the state and the effects they have had on shifting notions of identity. India is today faced with a crisis in the attempts made by the government to accommodate global capitalism in a highly traditional society. Papers in this volume underline two aspects of the current crisis; the deeply worrying failure of liberalisation to stem poverty, and the equally dangerous climate of hostility to secularism. However, the work presented here tries to suggest some possible paths away from the predicaments of communalism and mass poverty.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Vinita Damodaran is a Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Sussex in England. She is a specialist on the history of ethnicity, nationalism and environmental change and culture. Her past publications include: Broken Promises: Popular Protest, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar 1935-46 and Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia.

Maya Unnithan-Kumar is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her major monograph to date has been Identity, Gender and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan. Her current research is in the field of medical anthropology, and she has published many articles on the anthropology of reproduction and health policy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8173043817
• ISBN 13: 9788173043819
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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