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The Cambridge companion to modern Indian culture
"India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of l...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to culture
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| Online Access: | http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio9579455 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Chronology; Introduction / Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana; Part I. Cultural Contexts: 1. Scenes of rural change / Ann Grodzins Gold; 2. The formation of tribal identities / Stuart Blackburn; 3. Food and agriculture / Amita Baviskar; 4. Urban forms of religious practice / Smriti Srinivas; 5. The politics of caste identities / Christophe Jaffrelot; Part II. Cultural Forms: 6. History and representation in the Bengali novel / Supriya Chaudhuri; 7. Writing in English / Rashmi Sadana; 8. Dalit life histories / Debjani Ganguly; 9. Three traditions in modernist art / Sonal Khullar; 10. Mass reproduction and the art of the bazaar / Kajri Jain; 11. Urban theatre and the turn towards 'folk' / Vasudha Dalmia; 12. Aesthetics and politics in popular cinema / Ravi S. Vasudevan; 13. Musical genres and national identity / Amanda Weidman; 14. Voyeurism and the family on television / Amrita Ibrahim.