Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches – serie
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Streets in Motion
The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta
Inbunden, 2022
1177 kr
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The book studies the social production of motion in a capitalist urban context. In the city of capital, motion refers to a fetish. The bourgeois order posits motion as a metaphor for energy, positivity, and progress - a norm - and obstruction (motion's dialectical opposite) as delinquency. The book …
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism
Inbunden, 2022
1378 kr
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This book reflects the changing modalities of Hindu nationalist organizing among women and youth. It provides unique insights into how this immensely powerful political formation has been able to preside over a massive network of grassroots organisations among most segments of Indian society and …
Evacuee Cinema
Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940-1960
Inbunden, 2023
1559 kr
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This new history of partition and South Asian cinema is narrated through the careers of émigré film personnel, as well as through the distinctive genres and ancillary ventures that accompanied the aftershocks of partition. Moving beyond arguments about social contingency and political intent, the …
Rule of the Commoner
DMK and Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967
Av Rajan Kurai Krishnan, Ravindran Sriramachandran m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1177 kr
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The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has been singular in heralding and establishing a firm regional polity among the Indian states after the Indian Union was inaugurated as a republic. Academic scholarship has often treated the DMK as a Tamil nationalist or ethno-nationalist formation without …
Claiming the People's Past
Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century
Av Berber Bevernage, Eline Mestdagh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the past. Twelve case studies focus on uses of history and memory by populist movements across the globe – …
Through the India-China Border
Kalimpong in the Himalayas
Av Prem Poddar, Lisa Lindkvist Zhang
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
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Through the India-China Border mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the 'Tibet Question' in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan border town of Kalimpong from the 1920s to 1962, it unearths a …
Through the India-China Border
Kalimpong in the Himalayas
Av Prem Poddar, Lisa Lindkvist Zhang
Inbunden, 2025
1493 kr
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Through the India-China Border mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the 'Tibet Question' in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan border town of Kalimpong from the 1920s to 1962, it unearths a …
Elusive Democracy
Dalit Politics, Elections, and the Dilemmas of Representation
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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Today, India is widely celebrated as the world's largest democracy. However, not all groups experience India's political institutions the same way. This book draws on extensive interviews with longtime Dalit (ex-Untouchable) activists and original archives of party documents to explore the …
Shifting Landscapes
Education and Urban Transformations in India
Av Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1756 kr
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Shifting Landscapes is a rich, multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, adding value to the growing scholarship on broader connections between urbanisation and education. As cities have continued to develop, their spatial, social and cultural landscapes have also …
Knowledge/Nation
The Humanities and the Social Sciences in Postcolonial India
Av Baidik Bhattacharya, Prathama Banerjee
Inbunden, 2026
1738 kr
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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 …
Knowledge/Nation
The Humanities and the Social Sciences in Postcolonial India
Av Baidik Bhattacharya, Prathama Banerjee
Häftad, 2026
570 kr
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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 …
Women and Colonial Law
A Feminist Social History
Av Janaki Nair
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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This book introduces students of law and history to key colonial moments that have shaped women's legal status up to the present day. It introduces students and general readers to the critical events and legal decisions that determined the place of women under law. It also introduces readers to …
Twenty-First Century Media Aesthetics and the Political
Inbunden, 2026
1688 kr
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This collection frames a theory of twenty-first century media in a world where the vast majority of internet users reside in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatised a complex set of technological infrastructures that now shape life in pragmatic and exceptional ways. …
Twenty-First Century Media Aesthetics and the Political
Häftad, 2026
618 kr
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This collection frames a theory of twenty-first century media in a world where the vast majority of internet users reside in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatised a complex set of technological infrastructures that now shape life in pragmatic and exceptional ways. …
Sober State
Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India
Häftad, 2026
561 kr
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'What happens when a democratic state-still in the process of formation-commits to banning a substance, especially one as controversial as alcohol? This book traces the origins and evolution of alcohol prohibition in India, drawing on extensive archival research and rich vernacular sources to …
Sober State
Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India
Inbunden, 2026
1522 kr
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'What happens when a democratic state-still in the process of formation-commits to banning a substance, especially one as controversial as alcohol? This book traces the origins and evolution of alcohol prohibition in India, drawing on extensive archival research and rich vernacular sources to …
The Silent Rebellion
Labour, Caste, and Education in Colonial India
Av Arun Kumar
Häftad, 2026
679 kr
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The Silent Rebellion tells a history of labour subjectivity formation at the site of education and the defiance of labouring subalterns who refused to see themselves solely as labouring bodies in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so by focusing on the hitherto neglected social …
The Silent Rebellion
Labour, Caste, and Education in Colonial India
Av Arun Kumar
Inbunden, 2026
1623 kr
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The Silent Rebellion tells a history of labour subjectivity formation at the site of education and the defiance of labouring subalterns who refused to see themselves solely as labouring bodies in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so by focusing on the hitherto neglected social …
The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism
Transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana
Inbunden, 2022
1233 kr
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Nationalism is among the most influential ideas that has shaped the 'Metamorphoses of the Political' in the long twentieth century. This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another Indian nationalism' …
Properties of Rent
Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi
Inbunden, 2022
1351 kr
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We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s. As these villages transform physically; …
Saffron Republic
Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India
Av Thomas Blom Hansen, Srirupa Roy
Inbunden, 2022
1143 kr
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This volume examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or 'new Hindutva' that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India. There is a rich body of work on Hindu nationalism, but its main focus is on an earlier moment of insurgent movement politics …
