Exploring Indian modernities : ideas and practices /: ideas and practices. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Leila Choukroune, Parul Bhandari, editors.
• Editors: Choukroune, Leïla; Bhandari, Parul
• Contents: 1. Understanding the Modern in India Leïla Choukroune & Parul Bhandari. Part I. Imagining the Modern: Ideas, Institutions, and Challenges -- 2. Transgressions, Demosprudence, and Justice Upendra Baxi -- 3. From Without to Within: Indian International Law as Modernizer Leïla Choukroune -- 4. The Political Economy of Being "Modern" in 21st century India Jayati Ghosh -- 5. Political Innovation in the working of Indian Democracy: A study of the Group of Ministers Device (1998-2014) Balveer Arora & K.K. Kailash -- 6. Three Languages of Discourse of Modernity in India Savita Singh. Part II. Experiencing the Modern: Makings and Practices -- 7. Makings of Modern Marriage: Choice, Family, and the Matchmakers Parul Bhandari -- 8. Modern Bombay: Making of a Cultural Metropolis from 1850 to 1950 Christine Ithurbide -- 9. Modern Mixes: The Hybrid and the Authentic in Indian Cuisine Ishita Banerjee-Dube -- 10. Ritual at the Cutting Edge: Everyday Animal Slaughter as Practice and Symbol Rita Brara. Part III. Narrating the Modern: Texts and Travels -- 11. Religion and Hospitality in the Modern: Thinking with Abdul Bismillah Simona Sawhney -- 12. Modernity's Nightmares: Narrating Sexuality in Kerala Navaneetha Mokkil -- 13. Exploring Modernism as Reflected in Post-Partition Hindi/Urdu Fiction Sukrita Paul -- 14. Latin American Travellers in Modern India Minni Sawhney -- 15. Chinese and Indian Attitude Towards the Past: A Paradoxical Appropriation Nicolas Idier -- 16. From 'Savages' to 'Saviours': Genealogy of Santal Portrayal in Colonial Modernity Anshul Avijit.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 954/.7502; Social change -- India; Economic development -- India -- History; HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia; Civilization; Economic development; Social change; India -- Civilization; India; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811075575; 9811075573
• Related ISBNs: 9789811075568; 9811075565
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2018).
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