Modern Makeovers examines the conditions, limitations, and possibilities of modernity in contemporary contexts of politics, culture, and the arts in the South Asian context. Is modernity new to India, involving the transformation only in recent decades of an apparently timeless traditional society through global networks of banking and industry, migration and information, and trade andtechnology? Or have different groups on the Indian subcontinent variously participated in processes of modernity over a much longer time period? How is modernity itself to be understood and what forms have its expressions taken?Modern Makeovers explores the depths and surfaces which are constitutive of modernity and its representations. It sheds light on the historical aspects of modernity during colonial times. The volume also examines the conditions, limitations, and possibilities of modernity-and the modern-in contemporary contexts, including politics, culture, and the arts. The handbook approaches formations of modernity as always particular yet already global, all the while drawingon a range of South Asianexperiences. The contributors map prior routes and chart novel pathways in discussions of modernity in the different regions of the subcontinent. They attend to prior, inherited understandings of modernity that are based on pre-figured, modular projections of the traditional and the modern, the non-Westand the West. INDICE: Preface Modern Makeovers: An Introduction (Saurabh Dube) SECTION I: IMPERIAL IMPLICATIONS The Strange Death of an Imperial Ideal: The Case of Civis Britannicus (Mrinalini Sinha) Can the Postcolonial Begin? Deprovincializing Assam (Bodhisattva Kar) Maladies of Modernity: Malaria and the Making of Burdwan Fever (Rohan Deb Roy) The Mofussil and the Modern: The Discreet Charms ofKangal Harinath (Atig Ghosh) SECTION II: PROBING POLITICS Minority and Modernity: B.R. Ambedkar and Dalit Politics (Anupama Rao) Gandhi's Religion (Ajay Skaria) Apocalyptic Effects: Questions of Globalization and Islam (Faisal Devji)A Pattern for National Modernity: Politics in Pakistan (Ian Bedford) SECTION III: CRITICAL CULTURES Ripening with the Earth: On Maturity and Modernity in South India (Anand Pandian) Modern Senses: Of Selves, Citizens, Nationals, and Subjects (Vronique Bn) The Intellectual's Hidden Body: Affect and Mood in Family Planning (Kalpana Ram) Ethno-logics: Paradigms of Modern Identity (TownsendMiddleton) SECTION IV: AFFECTING ARTS Advertising in India: Genealogies of the Consumer Subject (Arvind Rajagopal) Architectonic Improvisations: Modern Design in Postcolonial India (Jaideep Chatterjee) Making Art Modern: Revisiting Modernism in India (Sanjukta Sunderasan) Afterword (Prathama Banerjee) Notes onContributors
- ISBN: 978-0-19-807404-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 27/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés