Region Culture And Politics In India

Author : Rajendra Vora
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Region, Culture, and Politics in India written by Rajendra Vora and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Presents A Multidisciplinary Study Of The Processes Through Which Regions And Regional Consciousness Get Formed And Maintained In India. The Fourten Essays Brought Together Here Examine Various Modes Through Which People In Different Parts Of India Express, Create, And Foster A Sense Of Their Area As A Distinct, Coherent, And Significant Unit To Which They Belong In Some Important Way. The Modes Examined Include Language, Oral And Written Literature, Festivals, Pilgrimages, Everyday Rituals, Domestic Wall-Calendars, Caste Identity, Religious Identity, And Political Movements. The Contributors To The Volume Belong To A Wide Variety Of Disciplines In The Humanities And Social Sciences.

Author : K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804744157
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Modernities written by K. Sivaramakrishnan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar papers.

Author : John Zavos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India written by John Zavos and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume investigate the association between politics and cultural mobilization, and the possibilities it creates for a rethinking of the relationship. The volume isolates two trends in fragmentation of Indian politics: the impact of cultural mobilization on the fragmentation of identity and the increasing regionalization of the Indian political system.

Author : Anis Kumar Majumdar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regionalism in Indian Politics written by Anis Kumar Majumdar and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. Kanato Chophy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438485832
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Politics in Tribal India written by G. Kanato Chophy and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an ethnohistorical study of the Nagas—a congeries of tribes inhabiting the Indo-Myanmar frontier—this book explores an unusually interesting region of India that is all too often seen as peripheral. G. Kanato Chophy provides a distinct vantage point for understanding the Nagas in relation to colonialism, missionary encounters, identity politics, and cultural change, all seamlessly woven around American Baptist mission history in this region. The book also analyses India's cacophonous postindependence democracy in order to delineate multifaith issues, multiculturalism, and ethnicity-based political movements. Within the West, episodic memories of the "Great Awakening," a significant landmark in the history of Protestantism, have faded into archival records. But among the Nagas of the Indo-Myanmar highlands, Baptist Christianity persists as the dominant religion, influencing the daily lives of nearly three million people. Focusing variously on evangelical faith, missionary zeal, ethnic identities, political struggle, and complex culture wars, Christianity and Politics in Tribal India is an original and major study of how Protestant missions changed the history and destiny of a tribal community in one of the unlikeliest regions of South Asia.

Author : T. V. Sathyamurthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Region, Religion, Caste, Gender and Culture in Contemporary India written by T. V. Sathyamurthy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rob Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Reflections written by Rob Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an important comparative analysis of how Indian federalism and Indian democracy operate within the states of the union. The volume brings together the writings of highly respected scholars in politics each of who examine a distinct analytical problem from the perspective of a two-state comparison. The book deals with four key areas of Indian democracy economic policymaking, subaltern politicization, civic engagement, and political leadership. The subject matter ranges from the reasons why markedly different institutional inheritances and patterns of sociopolitical change in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka nevertheless produced such similar party and electoral systems, to an explanation for the differing levels of communal violence in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. The answers to these and other questions are both illuminating about the nature of democratic practice in contemporary India and instructive about questions of how and on what scale to apply the comparative me thod. It thus sheds light on the nature of democratic practice in contemporary India and provides a useful guide to how comparative analysis, within the confines of a single nation-state, can contribute to the study of political change Contributors include Loraine Kennedy, Aseema Sinha, Sanjay Kumar, Christophe Jaffrelot, Jasmine Zerinini-Brotel, Ashutosh Varshney, Rob Jenkins, James Manor, and Mukulika Banerjee

Author : Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704000
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking State Politics in India written by Ashutosh Kumar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the twin issues of identity and development that are often signifiers of the unravelling politics in the federal polity, the book make a concerted attempt to look at (and beyond) the states by exploring the specificities of the regions within these states. It does so through a comparative study from the vantage point of democratic politics as it unfurls in recent India. Emphasising that regions within the states are not merely politico-administrative instituted constructs but are also imagined or constituted, among others, in historical, geographic, economic, sociological or cultural terms, it argues that any meaningful comparative study of the regions would naturally straddle the disciplinary boundaries of social sciences. The book attempts to go beyond the states and look at the regions within them as a distinctive analytical category for an in-depth study of the democratic politics of identity and development unfolding at the state level.

Author : Prabhat Kumar Datta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of Region and Religion in India written by Prabhat Kumar Datta and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research papers on contemporary Indian politics.

Author : Marine Carrin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789380607870
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China written by Marine Carrin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indigenous population, with their rich culture and heritage, represent an important component of Indian and Himalayan civilizations. Politics of Ethnicity in India, Neapal and China reviews the social, cultural and political processes that have shaped these indigenous societies in India, Nepal and China in recent years. The ethnic minorities, legally recognized in India and Nepal have emerged as powerful groups influencing the political imagery in both these countries. In Nepal, the staggering diversity of the Himalayan population poses a problem for the authorities. They include economically and culturally diverse groups, spread throughout the region. The state, partially inspired by India is now looking at institutionalizing procedures to integrate the indigenous people as citizens. In India, the threat of ethnic conflict has driven the Indian state to recognize new states and form autonomous district councils, paving way for an asymmetrical federalism where federal units are being devolved special powers. The acknowledgement of indigenous languages and scripts by the Constitution of India has offered the possibility for janjatis/adivasis to assert themselves. Likewise, the recent policies in favour of ethnic minority groups and their culture in Nepal have generated various initiatives from local communities to develop their often endangered culture. Both in India and Nepal, these changes impact the discourse held by leaders who are now claiming a history and culture for their own group. The construction of an identity through narratives, village theatre and other cultural expressions have become part of the subtle process of reinventing tradition. The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China analyzes the reshaping of ethnic boundaries through acculturation, conversion, education, and religious movements, in times of conflict as well as in times of peace, highlighting how the indigenous people of India and Nepal frame a new sense of identity informed by 'reinvented' custom. This may offer a way to conciliate self-governance and democracy. In India, development programmes launched in different regions by the states have led to further deprivation of indigenous people and conflicts over environmental issues. This volume enables the reader to grasp the reformulation of identities influenced by cultural strategies of empowerment. As mentioned earlier, in both India and Nepal, the tribal has been considered a political agent in the national imagination. Besides, it is not by chance that current concern over biodiversity in a globalizing world has in many ways laid hope in tribal practices which are regarded as sustainable. Yet biodiversity also comes with the promise of a different lifestyle contrasting with the homogenized consumerism which dominates today's capitalist economy. Adivasi/janajati societies have often developed a policy of resisting global, capital, savage and corrupt industrial exploitation. For instance, they maintain 'sacred groves' as religious emblems of indigenous knowledge in central India and in the Khasi and Garo hills. This volume also discusses the progressive discovery of tribal art and its present status in the national context. It traces the story of how these art forms came to be recognized as such, underlining factors such as state patronage, which played an important role in this process. Retracing the path these artefacts took from local workshops to craft-exhibitions, museums and shops in the capital of Orissa State and on to those of the Indian Union capital city (New Delhi).