The Other 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 The Other India write by Om Prakash Dwivedi. This book was released on 2013-01-03. The Other India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book engages with critical issues which create a proper understanding of how identities and belonging are imagined and constructed in postcolonial India. The contributors have examined various texts and movies to discuss the implicit communal nature of postcolonial India. The book attempts to discuss the different ways in which India is badly plagued by communal politics and terrorism, and to offer a cogent alternative for creating a strong solidarity among different communities in India.
Politics of the 'Other' in India and China
Politics of the 'Other' in India and China - 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 Politics of the 'Other' in India and China write by Lion Koenig. This book was released on 2016-02-22. Politics of the 'Other' in India and China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the ‘West’ and the ‘rest’, ‘us’ and ‘them’ and ‘self’ and ‘other’. Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the ‘Other’ as opposed to the ‘Self’ from philosophy and cultural studies to the social sciences, this book explores how the structural asymmetries existing between Western discourses and the realities of the non-Western world manifest themselves in the ideas, institutions and socio-political practices of India and China, and in how far they shape the social scientist’s understanding of their discipline in general. It provides a counter-narrative by revealing the relativity of geographies, and by showing that the conventional presentation of core elements of the Asian socio-political set-up as ‘aberrations’ from the Western models fails to acknowledge their inherent strategic character of adapting Western concepts to meet local requirements. Drawing on multiple disciplines, concepts and contexts in India and China, the book makes a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of politics, as well as to International and Asian Studies.
The Routledge Handbook of the Other Backward Classes in India
The Routledge Handbook of the Other Backward Classes in 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 The Routledge Handbook of the Other Backward Classes in India write by Simhadri Somanaboina. This book was released on 2021-11-15. The Routledge Handbook of the Other Backward Classes in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook presents an authoritative account of the development of movements, thoughts and policies of OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in India. Despite the adoption of egalitarian principles in the Indian Constitution, caste inequalities, discrimination and exclusionary practices against people from backward classes and other lower castes continue to haunt them in contemporary India. A comprehensive work on the politics of identity and plurality of experiences of OBCs in India, this handbook: — Features in-depth research by eminent scholars on the Other Backward Classes (OBC) social and political thought, OBC movements and OBC development and policy making. — Discusses the life, ideologies and pioneering contributions by Gautam Buddha, Sant Kabir, Jotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule, Shahu Maharaj, Narayana Guru, B.R. Ambedkar, Ram Manohar Lohia, and E V Ramasamy Periyar and leading social reform movements. — Examines OBC issues with case studies from various Indian states to look at issues of pre- and post- Mandal India; backward caste movements; and reclamation of the Bahujan legacy. — Critiques public policies and programs for the development of OBCs in India. — Reviews the status of Muslim OBCs in India and of the invisibilized nomadic communities. — Reviews the impact of globalization on the economically backward lower castes and the impact of development initiatives for the excluded people. The first of its kind, this handbook will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of exclusion and discrimination studies, diversity and inclusion studies, Global South studies, affirmative action, sociology, Indian political history, Dalit studies, political sociology, public policy, development studies and political studies.
Trinidad and the Other West India Islands and Colonies
Trinidad and the Other West India Islands and Colonies - 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 Trinidad and the Other West India Islands and Colonies write by Daniel Hart. This book was released on 1866. Trinidad and the Other West India Islands and Colonies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things
India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things - 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 India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things write by Vinay Lal. This book was released on 2024-02-28. India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book, the third volume to emerge from the enterprise known as 'The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics', attempts to further the collective's ambition to put into question the certitudes of conventional social science discourse, decolonize the dominant knowledge frameworks, and understand how the intellectual and cultural resources of Indian civilization may be deployed to think both, about some problems in contemporary politics and culture, and to introduce greater plurality into the world of modern knowledge systems. Some of the collective's members remain deeply committed to reinitiating metaphysics into politics, and similarly, the collective's enduring interest in Narayana Guru is reflected in at least three chapters. Although engagement with Gandhi and Ambedkar is a familiar part of the Indian intellectual landscape, other chapters on offer pivot around histories of power, performative traditions, and modes of worship. Unlike the scholarship that is now the norm, organized around a distinct theme, this volume exhibits a more daring approach to India's intellectual traditions, traversing the world of Kannada intellectuals, the Kashmir Shaiva tradition, a Marathi Bhakti poet, and a contemporary Indian philosopher, as much as conceptual ideas drawn from a wide array of Indian texts and experiences.
