Retro-modern India : Forging the Low-caste Self.

Focusing on the low caste Chamar community, this€book examines how some of them abandoned their traditional polluting work, and strategically entered the upper-caste weaving profession. Located within the changing politics of the time, €it outlines human agency and its search for dignity.

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Main Author: Ciotti, Manuela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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505 0 |a Front Cover; Retro-modern India; Copyright Page; Contents; Orthography and Transliteration; Glossary of Selected Terms; Foreword by Mukulika Banerjee; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Chamar Modernity: Progressing into the Past; Chapter 2. 'Today We Can Touch Anything': Reflections on the Crux of Identity 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. 
505 8 |a Chapter 5. Nonrational Modernity? Religious Agency, Science and SpiritsChapter 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; Bibliography; About the Author; Index. 
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