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Baidik Bhattacharya, Prathama Banerjee - Knowledge/Nation, Inbunden

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Knowledge/Nation

The Humanities and the Social Sciences in Postcolonial India

Av Baidik Bhattacharya, Prathama Banerjee

Del i serien Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

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To mark the 75th year of India's birth as a republic, Knowledge/Nation brings together reflections on how the social sciences and allied interdisciplinary fields have evolved in the country, and where we can go from here. It explores how India has figured as an object of knowledge and a site of critical reflection in the last hundred years. The volume presents wide coverage - not only narrating the evolution of history, politics, economics, literature etc. in context of changing democratic debates but also asks difficult questions, such as why religious studies never came centre-stage in the academy even though religion remained salient in public debates, how gender studies, film studies and Dalit studies emerged out of demands from outside the academy and whether environmental studies can be framed by the nation at all, given the planetary-scale of the climate crisis. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (2018). His works have appeared in some of the leading journals of our times: Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Boundary 2, Modern Philology, Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, among others. Prathama Banerjee is a historian and a political theorist. She studies the career of political ideas and concepts in India – as they emerge in the cusp of philosophy, religion, history, and literature and across the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. She has recently published Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South. Her earlier work was on the Politics of Time, in which she looked at the emergence of the modern discipline of history in colonial Bengal from an encounter with 'peoples without history' – tribes, aborigines, primitives.

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