Retro-modern India : forging the low-caste self / Manuela Ciotti.

On the changing perrspective of Chamārs in modern times; a study.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Ciotti, Manuela
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi : Routledge, ©2010.
Series:	Exploring the political in South Asia.
Subjects:	Chamār (South Asian people) > India > History. India > Politics and government > 20th century. Chamār (South Asian people) Politics and government. India. History.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Chamar Modernity: Progressing into the Past
Chapter 2. 'Today We Can Touch Anything': Reflections on the Crux of Indentity and Political Economy
Chapter 3. Ethnohistories behind Local and Global Bazaars: Chronicle of a Weaving Community and its Disappearance
Chapter 4. 'We Used to Live like Animals': Education as a Self- and Community-engineering Process
Chapter 5. Nonrational Modernity? Religious Agency, Science and Spirits
Chapter 6. Beyond the Vote: Politics as Sociality, Imagination and Identity
Chapter 7. The Bourgeois Woman and the Half-naked one: Gendering Retro-modernity
Chapter 8. The Politics of Indian Modernity.

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