Exploring Indian Modernities Ideas and Practices /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Choukroune, Leïla (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bhandari, Parul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Cultural studies.; Ethnology-Asia.; Economic policy.; Cultural Studies.; Asian Culture.; Development Policy.

This book is an ambitious attempt to bring together the diverse interpretations of the modern that have shaped the realities of Indian society. It undertakes not one, but multiple conceptual frameworks to explain the journey of the making and experiencing of the modern. It also points to the loophol...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Understanding the Modern in India Leïla Choukroune & Parul Bhandari. Part I. Imagining the Modern: Ideas, Institutions, and Challenges
• 2. Transgressions, Demosprudence, and Justice Upendra Baxi
• 3. From Without to Within: Indian International Law as Modernizer Leïla Choukroune
• 4. The Political Economy of Being "Modern" in 21st century India Jayati Ghosh
• 5. Political Innovation in the working of Indian Democracy: A study of the Group of Ministers Device (1998-2014) Balveer Arora & K. K. Kailash
• 6. Three Languages of Discourse of Modernity in India Savita Singh. Part II. Experiencing the Modern: Makings and Practices
• 7. Makings of Modern Marriage: Choice, Family, and the Matchmakers Parul Bhandari
• 8. Modern Bombay: Making of a Cultural Metropolis from 1850 to 1950 Christine Ithurbide
• 9. Modern Mixes: The Hybrid and the Authentic in Indian Cuisine Ishita Banerjee-Dube
• 10. Ritual at the Cutting Edge: Everyday Animal Slaughter as Practice and Symbol Rita Brara. Part III. Narrating the Modern: Texts and Travels
• 11. Religion and Hospitality in the Modern: Thinking with Abdul Bismillah Simona Sawhney
• 12. Modernity's Nightmares: Narrating Sexuality in Kerala Navaneetha Mokkil
• 13. Exploring Modernism as Reflected in Post-Partition Hindi/Urdu Fiction Sukrita Paul
• 14. Latin American Travellers in Modern India Minni Sawhney
• 15. Chinese and Indian Attitude Towards the Past: A Paradoxical Appropriation Nicolas Idier
• 16. From 'Savages' to 'Saviours': Genealogy of Santal Portrayal in Colonial Modernity Anshul Avijit.