Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India write by Mytheli Sreenivas. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.
A Concise History of Modern India
A Concise History of Modern India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise History of Modern India write by Barbara D. Metcalf. This book was released on 2006-09-28. A Concise History of Modern India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century and paved the way for the modern success story. Despite these advances, poverty, social inequality and religious division still fester. In response to these dilemmas, the book grapples with questions of caste and religious identity, and the nature of the Indian nation.
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Rethinking Markets in Modern India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Markets in Modern India write by Ajay Gandhi. This book was released on 2020-10. Rethinking Markets in Modern India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Makers of Modern India
Makers of Modern India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Makers of Modern India write by Ramachandra Guha. This book was released on 2011-03-31. Makers of Modern India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes a short biographical introduction to each person, followed by excerpts from their writings.
Righteous Republic
Righteous Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Righteous Republic write by Ananya Vajpeyi. This book was released on 2012-10-31. Righteous Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought. Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence. Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.
