{"product_id":"debating-the-post-condition-in-india-9781138103672","title":"Debating the 'Post' Condition in India","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Makarand R. Paranjape\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rout India\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"T\u0026F","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45091216687255,"sku":"9781138103672","price":647.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/debating-the-post-condition-in-india-9781138103672","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}