Community and identities : contemporary discourses on culture and politics in India
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Community and identities : contemporary discourses on culture and politics in India
Sage Publications, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-259) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This important volume of original essays interrogates contemporary debates, popular as well as academic, on the place of communities and cultural identities in India's polity. In particular the contributors:
- analyse some of the emerging concerns in the social and political life of contemporary India
- deal with issues that are central to recent debates among social and political theorists, that is, community, identity, nation and civil society
- present fresh perspectives on these issues which are of interest to most developing societies
Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE: COMMUNITY AND IDENTITIES: CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS
Introduction - Surinder S Jodkha
The Concept of Community in Indian Social Sciences - Carol Upadhya
An Anthropological Perspective
In the Tracks of Community and Identity - Sasheej Hegde
Deepening the Interrogation
The Eclipse or the Renaissance of 'Community'? The Career of the Concept - Ravinder Kaur
PART TWO: CASTE, CLASS AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY IDENTITIES
Is Caste Appeal Casteism? Oppressed Castes in Politics - Javeed Alam
The Ambiguity of Categories - D Parthasarthy
Community and Identity in the Kapunadu Movement
Narratives in the Re-Constitution of Communities - A R Vasavi
Community, Identity and Politics - Sujata Patel
The Baliapal Movement
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE SPATIAL REARTICULATION OF COMMUNITIES
`Can You Talk Indian?' Shifting Notions of Community and Identity in the Indian Diaspora - Aparna Rayaprol
The Spatiality of Community - Satish Deshpande
Evaluating the Impact of Globalization on Regional Identities
PART FOUR: MINORITIES, WOMEN AND COMMUNITIES
Fluid Boundaries - Rowena Robinson
Indian Christian Communities
Community, Women Citizens and a Women's Politics - Anupama Roy
Index
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