Regional Modernities : The Cultural Politics of Development in India

by K. Sivaramakrishnan; Arun Agrawal

• ISBN13: 9780195657012
• ISBN10: 0195657012
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

This collection of essays by leading social scientists focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of " regional modernities" in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. The authors emphasize the continued importance of the nation-state, as it enacts development projects and policies, in considering regional formations of modernity.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Regional Modernities in Stories and Practices of Development	p. 1
Traveling Discourses	p. 63
The Transmission of Development: Problems of Scale and Socialization	p. 65
Developing Women: The Traffic in Ideas about Women and their Needs in Kangra, India	p. 75
'Difficult Work': Becoming Developed	p. 99
Building India's 'Modern Temples': Indians and Americans in the Damodar Valley Corporation, 1945-60	p. 122
'Shelter' in Modern Delhi	p. 143
Development Situations	p. 163
Beyond Blackmail: Multivalent Modernities and the Cultural Politics of Development in India	p. 165
Development, Nationalism, and the Time of the Primitive: The Dangs Darbar	p. 215
Educating Entrepreneurs, Organizing for Social Justice: NGO Development Strategies in New Delhi Bastis	p. 237
Mukkuvar Modernity: Development as a Cultural Identity	p. 262
Development Counter-Narratives: Taking Social Movements Seriously	p. 286
Transgressing Boundaries	p. 313
Rethinking Boundaries	p. 315
On Binaries and Boundaries	p. 329
Beyond the Local/Global Divide: Knowledge for Tree Management in Madhya Pradesh	p. 338
Modernity in a Suitcase: An Essay on Immigrant Indian Writing	p. 359
Policing and Erasing the Global/Local Border: Rajasthani Foresters and the Narrative Ecology of Modernization	p. 377
State, Place, Identity: Two Stories in the Making of Region	p. 404
Index	p. 427
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