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Debating the 'Post' Condition in India

by Makarand R. Paranjape
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781138103672
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: T&F
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 282
  • Original Price: INR 995.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1000 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history. Tracing independent India's engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and 'post'. The book explores the discursive trajectories of post-modernism, post-colonialism, post-Marxism, post-nationalism, post-feminism, post-secularism - the relations that mediate them - as well as interprets, in the light of these discussions, enduring postulates of Indian philosophical thought. Paranjape argues that India's response to the post-modernist project is neither submission, willing or reluctant, nor repudiation, intentional or forced; rather India's 'modernity' is 'unauthorized', different, subversive and alter-native. Thus, India is alter- rather than 'post' modern.

The book makes a forceful case for a new intermedial and integrative hermeneutics. Combining the idea of an indigenous 'critical vernacular' with that of svaraj, it presents radical possibilities, beyond decolonization and nationalism, of personal and political transformation.

A key intervention in Indian criticism and theory, this volume will interest researchers and scholars of literature, philosophy, political theory, culture studies and post-colonial studies.

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