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 INDICE: PrefacePART ONE: COMMUNITY AND IDENTITIES: CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONSIntroduction - Surinder S JodkhaThe Concept of Community in Indian Social Sciences - Carol Upadhya An Anthropological PerspectiveIn the Tracks of Community and Identity - Sasheej Hegde Deepening the InterrogationThe Eclipse or the Renaissance of 'Community'? The Career of the Concept - Ravinder KaurPART TWO: CASTE, CLASS AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY IDENTITIESIs Caste Appeal Casteism? Oppressed Castes in Politics - Javeed AlamThe Ambiguity of Categories - D Parthasarthy Community and Identity in the Kapunadu MovementNarratives in the Re-Constitution of Communities - A R VasaviCommunity, Identity and Politics - Sujata Patel The Baliapal MovementPART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE SPATIAL REARTICULATION OF COMMUNITIES`Can You Talk Indian?' Shifting Notions of Community and Identity in the Indian Diaspora - Aparna RayaprolThe Spatiality of Community - Satish Deshpande Evaluating the Impact of Globalization on Regional IdentitiesPART FOUR: MINORITIES, WOMEN AND COMMUNITIESFluid Boundaries - Rowena Robinson Indian Christian CommunitiesCommunity, Women Citizens and a Women's Politics - Anupama RoyIndex
- ISBN: 978-8-1321-1394-2
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 270
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