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  • 2005-2009  (3)
  • Ganguly, Debjani  (3)
  • London : Routledge  (3)
  • 1
    ISBN: 0415437407 , 9780415437400
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 272 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 46
    Parallel Title: Print version Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality : Global Perspectives
    DDC: 303.6/1
    Keywords: Gandhi Congresses Teachings ; Gandhi Congresses Influence ; Civil disobedience Congresses ; Nonviolence Congresses
    Abstract: Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to contemporary struggles to regain the 'humane' in the midst of global conflict
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Global state of war and moral vernaculars of nonviolence: Rethinking Gandhi in a new world order; Part I: Worlding the Gandhian everyday: Food, medicine and fasts; Chapter 2: Ahimsa and other animals: The genealogy of an immature politics; Chapter 3: The quack whom we know: Illness and nursing in Gandhi; Chapter 4: Emptied of all but love: Gandhiji's first public fast; Part II: Of friendship, law and language: Shaping Gandhian 'weakness'; Chapter 5: Gandhi moves: Intentional communities and friendship
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Gandhi: The transformation of a South African lawyer 1897-1898Chapter 7: Only one word, properly altered: Gandhi and the question of the veshya; Part III: Carrying Gandhi over: Global peace movements; Chapter 8: Globalising Gandhi: Translation, reinvention, application, transformation; Chapter 9: Gandhiji in Burma, and Burma in Gandhiji; Chapter 10: Nonviolence and long hot summers: Black women's welfare-rights struggles in 1960s' Baltimore; Part IV: Interlocuting with modernity: Gandhi at home and in the world; Chapter 11: Josephus: Traitor or Gandhian avant la lettre?
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: Homespun wisdom: Gandhi, technology and nationalismChapter 13: Vernacular cosmopolitanism: World historical readings of Gandhi and Ambedkar; Index
    Note: Based on presentations at a symposium on Gandhi held in late 2004 on the premises of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University --T.p verso , Includes index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 2
    ISBN: 0415437407
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 272 S.
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 46
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
    DDC: 303.61
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    Keywords: Gandhi Teachings ; Gandhi Influence ; Nonviolence ; Civil disobedience ; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand ; Gewaltloser Widerstand ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2004
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 0203482239 , 9780203482230
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 287 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Caste, colonialism and counter-modernity
    DDC: 305.5122095409045
    Keywords: Caste India ; Postcolonialism India ; Mahars India ; Dalits ; Postcolonialism ; Caste ; Mahars ; Mahars ; Dalits ; Caste ; Postcolonialism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes ; Caste ; Dalits ; Mahars ; Postcolonialism ; India ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups. This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as they step into the twenty-first century. It investigates the limits of sociological and secular historical analysis of the caste system in South Asia and argues for ways of describing life-forms generated by caste on the subcontinent that supplement the accounts of caste in the social sciences. By
    Abstract: Prologue -- 1 Modernity, Postcolonaiality and the New Humanities: Toward a non-holistic reading of castePart 1: Caste and Theoretical Horizons2 -- The Dark Rock of Indian Tradition: Caste and orientalism3 -- The Anomalous Insider: Caste and nationalism4 -- An Intractable Dualism: Caste and Marxism5 -- On the Other Side of Revenge: Caste and post-orientalism Part 2: Caste, Life-World, Narrative and the Aesthetic6 -- Dalit Mythographies: Ambedkar as modernity's Interlocutor7 -- Buddha, Bhakti and Superstition: A post-secular reading of dalit conversion8 -- Of Urban Dystopias and New Gods: Readings from Marathi dalit literature9 -- Chandra, Velutha, Ammu, Death: The aporia of the aestheticEpilogue.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index. - Print version record
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