Indian Modernities
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Indian Modernities
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Author : Nishat Zaidi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Indian Modernities written by Nishat Zaidi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.
Exploring Indian Modernities
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Author : Leïla Choukroune
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-04
Exploring Indian Modernities written by Leïla Choukroune and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-04 with Social Science categories.
This book analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these modernities as well as the lived experience and practice of these modernities. The two broad foci in this book are: (a) The dynamism of modern institutions in India, delineating the specific ways in which ideas of modernity have come to define these institutions and how institutional innovations have shaped modernities; and (b) perspectives on everyday practices of modernities and the cultural constituents of being modern. This book provides an enriching read by bringing together original papers from diverse disciplines and from renowned as well as upcoming scholars.
Indian Modernity
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Author : Avijit Pathak
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-12
Indian Modernity written by Avijit Pathak and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12 with categories.
Indian Modernity critiques a techno-militaristic model of modernization, and visualizes alternative possibilities to give a distinctively new definition to our modernity.
China India And Alternative Asian Modernities
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Author : Sanjay Kumar
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2019-03-29
China India And Alternative Asian Modernities written by Sanjay Kumar and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-29 with Philosophy categories.
The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history. The essays in this volume contest the temporal and spatial divisions—between past and present, modernity and tradition, and Europe’s progress and Asia’s stasis—which the conventional narrative of modernity creates. Drawing on early modern Chinese and Indian history and culture instead, the authors of the book explore the provenance of modernity beyond the west to see it in a transcultural and pluralistic light. The central argument of this volume is that modernity does not have a singular core or essence—a causal centre. Its key features need to be disaggregated and new configurations and combinations imagined. By studying the Bhakti movement, Confucian democracy, and the maritime and agrarian economies of China and India, this book enlarges the terms of debate and revisits devalued terms and concepts like tradition, religion, authority, and rural as resources for modernity. This book will be of great interest to researchers and academicians working in the areas of history, Sociology, Cultural Studies, literature, geopolitics, South Asian and East Asian Studies.
Genres Of Modernity
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Author : Dirk Wiemann
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2008
Genres Of Modernity written by Dirk Wiemann and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
"Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English." "Combining close readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large."--BOOK JACKET.
Between Tradition And Modernity
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Author : Fred R Dallmayr
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 1998-07-20
Between Tradition And Modernity written by Fred R Dallmayr and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-20 with History categories.
This anthology documents the search of Indian intellectuals, politicians, and writers to forge a cultural identity despite and because of colonialism. The first part brings together major voices in India's struggle against colonialism; the second presents interpretive essays on the legacy of the great nationalist leaders; modernization and its discontents; the communal, ethnic, and interfaith relationships; and the future course of life in post-colonial India. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Colonial Origins Of Modernity In India
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Author : Sagar Simlandy
language : en
Publisher: BFC Publications
Release Date : 2022-09-10
Colonial Origins Of Modernity In India written by Sagar Simlandy and has been published by BFC Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-10 with History categories.
Our main discussion in this book Indian society, polity and culture of the colonial period. Indian society in the 19th century was caught in an inhuman web created by religious superstition and social obscuration. Hinduism, has become a compound of magic, animation and superstition and monstrous rites like animal sacrifice and physical torture had replaced the worship of God. The most painful was position of women. The British conquest and dissemination colonial culture and ideology led to introspection about the strength and weakness of indigenous culture and civilization. The social reform movements which emerged in India in the 19th century arose to the challenges that colonial Indian society faced. The well-known issues are that of sati, child marriage, ban on widow remarriage and caste discrimination. It is not that attempts were not made to fight social discrimination in pre-colonial India. They were central to Buddhism, to Bhakti and Sufi movements. What marked these 19th century social reform attempts were the modern context and mix of ideas. It was a creative combination of modern ideas of western liberalism and a new look on traditional literature.We hope that students will benefited a lot from reading this book.
The Modernity Of Tradition
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Author : Lloyd I. Rudolph
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1984-07-15
The Modernity Of Tradition written by Lloyd I. Rudolph and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-07-15 with Political Science categories.
Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition. Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.
Modernity In Indian Social Theory
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Author : A. Raghuramaraju
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-06
Modernity In Indian Social Theory written by A. Raghuramaraju and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
Unlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju argues that modernity in the West involved disinheriting the pre-modern, and temporal ordering of the traditional and modern. It was ruthlessly implemented through programmes of industrialization, nationalism, and secularism. This book underscores that India did not merely the Western model of modernity or experience a temporal ordering of society. It situates this sociological complexity in the context of the debates on social theory. The author critically examines various discourses on modernity in India, including Partha Chatterjee’s account of Indian nationalism; Javeed Alam’s reading of Indian secularism; the use of the term pluralism by some Indian social scientists; and Gopal Guru’s emphasis on the lived Dalit experience. He also engages with the readings on key thinkers including Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.
Narratives For Indian Modernity The Aesthetic Of Brij Mohan Anand
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Author : Aditi Anand
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Release Date : 2016-05-15
Narratives For Indian Modernity The Aesthetic Of Brij Mohan Anand written by Aditi Anand and has been published by HarperCollins India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-15 with Art categories.
A trenchant critic of both British imperialism and Indian militarism, Brij Mohan Anand's highly politicised aesthetic tracked India's emergence from Partition, Independence and its journey through the technological challenges of the Cold War and the complex modernity of the later twentieth century. B.M. Anand (1928-1986), an accomplished and principally self-taught artist, fashioned an exceptional range of work from scratchboards, sketches, genre scenes, pastoral images and starkly modernist figure compositions to a series of late, apocalyptic landscapes. His expansive creativity and sharp eye for visual innovation extended into graphics-based design, educational and illustration work which was routinely commissioned and supported by some of India's leading cultural and news organisations. Anand's life and aesthetic intersected with some of the foundational events which defined and shaped modern Indian consciousness. From the bitter, family legacy of the Amritsar massacre, through to the trauma of Partition and the post-Independence realpolitik of Congress and Communist Party mandates, he recognised the self-deception and vanity of power and the complicity of the elites through which it was exercised. Anand's legacy registers a singular consciousness; a profoundly human belief in a socially redemptive aesthetic and the agency of ordinary men and women to realise and to fashion their own futures within a contested modernity. Narratives for Indian Modernity follows the rediscovery and painstaking restoration of much of Anand's oeuvre, the location of previously overlooked archival and family records and interviews with surviving peers and friends. In doing so, it offers a critical perspective on an outsider artist and maverick who eschewed the attractions and blandishments of a commercial or overseas career, but who nevertheless kept witness to India's rebirth as a sovereign nation and ultimately, its emergence as a regional superpower.