New subaltern politics : reconceptualizing hegemony and resistance in contemporary India /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:	x, 318 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Caste -- India -- Polical aspects. Social stratification -- India -- History. Social movements -- India -- 20th century. Hegemony -- India -- Polical aspects. Caste. Politics and government. Social conditions. Social movements. Social stratification. India -- Politics and government -- 1947- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century. India.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11038679

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Other authors / contributors:	Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, editor. Roy, Srila, editor.
ISBN:	9780199457557 0199457557
Notes:	"This volume builds upon a series of conference panels and workshops that were organized between 2011 and 2013, in such diverse places as Honolulu, Nottingham and Bergen"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-298) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction Reconceptualizing Subaltern Politics in Contemporary India
I. Engaging Gramsci
1. For a Historical Sociology of State-Society Relations in the Study of Subaltern Politics
2. Rethinking Hegemony: Caste, Class, and Political Subjectivities among Informal Workers in Ahmedabad
3. Recovering Caste Privilege: The Politics of Meritocracy at the Indian Institutes of Technology
II. Imagination, Faith, Affect
4. Representing the Adivasi: Limits and Possibilities of Postcolonial Theory
5. Can the Subaltern Be Secular? Negotiating Catholic Faith, Identity, and Authority in Coastal Tamil Nadu
6. Affective Politics and the Sexual Subaltern: Lesbian Activism in Eastern India
III. Caste and Community in Civil/Political Society
7. Theorizing Thervoy Subaltern Studies and Dalit Praxis in India's Land Wars
8. 'Community' and the Politics of Caste, Class, and Representation in the Singur Movement, West Bengal
9. On the Edge of Civil Society in Contemporary India
Postscript
Subaltern Studies Then and Now
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors

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