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The rise of the national-popular and its limits: communism and the cultural in Kerala
The emergence of the communist movement in Kerala, India in a society that was charac- terized by immense divisions of caste and class is significant for understanding social transformation. What is of particular importance is the ways in which the communist activists who spoke the language of a sup...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
2013
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| Online Zugang: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005559.pdf |
| Zusammenfassung: | The emergence of the communist movement in Kerala, India in a society that was charac-
terized by immense divisions of caste and class is significant for understanding social transformation.
What is of particular importance is the ways in which the communist activists who spoke the language
of a supposedly alien ideology engaged with a populace that was predominantly agrarian and poor.
This paper will look at the communist engagement with certain aspects of culture, specifically
songs, folk arts and theater, in the initial years of the movement, and will argue that something
akin to a national-popular will was constructed, which broke down many existing hierarchies and
created new unities. But this engagement was equally characterized by many contradictions and spec-
tacular failures, which dented the emerging national-popular will. The cultural, and the communist
engagement with it will played a crucial role in laying the seeds of a substantive postcolonial democ-
racy but only in relative terms and without necessarily conferring on the most exploited classes equal
rights. |
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| Beschreibung: | p.494-518 14:4 |