Author: Digby Livingstone Drake-BrockmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Mathura, a Gazetteer
Author: Digby Livingstone Drake-BrockmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers
Author: Uttar Pradesh (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uttar Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Faizabad
Author: Uttar Pradesh (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uttar Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Vernacularisation of Democracy
Author: Lucia MicheluttiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000084000
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The book is an ethnographic exploration of how ‘democracy’ takes social and cultural roots in India and in the process shapes the nature of popular politics. It centres on a historically marginalised caste who in recent years has become one of the most assertive and politically powerful communities in North India: the Yadavs. The Vernacularisation of Democracy is a vivid account of how Indian popular democracy works on the ground. Challenging conventional theories of democratisation the book shows how the political upsurge of 'the lower orders' is situated within a wider process of the vernacularisation of democratic politics, referring to the ways in which values and practices of democracy become embedded in particular cultural and social practices, and in the process become entrenched in the consciousness of ordinary people. During the 1990s, Indian democracy witnessed an upsurge in the political participation of lower castes/communities and the emergence of political leaders from humble social backgrounds who present themselves as promoters of social justice for underprivileged communities. Drawing on a large body of archival and ethnographic material the author shows how the analysis of local idioms of caste, kinship, kingship, popular religion, ‘the past’ and politics (‘the vernacular’) inform popular perceptions of the political world and of how the democratic process shapes in turn ‘the vernacular’. This line of enquiry provides a novel framework to understand the unique experience of Indian democracy as well as democratic politics and its meaning in other contemporary post-colonial states. Using as a case study the political ethnography of a powerful northern Indian caste (the Yadavs) and combining ethnographic material with colonial and post-colonial history the book examines the unique experience of Indian popular democracy and provides a framework to analyse popular politics in other parts of the world. The book fills
Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires
Author: William R. PinchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521851688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
This 2006 book is an innovative study of warrior asceticism in India from the 1500s to the present.
Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Muzaffarnagar
Author: Uttar Pradesh (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uttar Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Haryana District Gazetteers
Author: Haryana (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Haryana (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Central Provinces District Gazetteers
Author: Central Provinces (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Provinces and Berar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Meerut
Author: Uttar Pradesh (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uttar Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Etah
Author: Uttar Pradesh (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uttar Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description