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The Ganapati utsava, a major festival of western India dedicated to the elephant-headed god, raises compelling questions about the interplay of religion, spectacle and cultural politics. In a book that spans a century of epochal history, Raminder Kaur considers how the public festival has been interwoven with everyday lives as well as the making of the modern Indian nation.
The festival was mobilised as a potential vehicle for political critique in the 1890s, ...
Censorship in South Asia offers an expansive and comparative exploration of cultural regulation in contemporary and colonial South Asia. These provocative essays by leading scholars broaden our understanding of what censorship might mean beyond the simple restriction and silencing of public communication by considering censorship’s productive potential and its intimate relationship to its apparent opposite, publicity. The contributors investigate a wide ...
The Ganapati utsava, a major festival of Western India dedicated to the Elephant Headed God, raises compelling questions about the interplay of religion, spectacle and cultural politics. In a book that spans a century of epochal history, Raminder Kaur considers how the public festival has been interwoven with everyday lives as well as the making of the modern Indian nation. The festival was mobilised as a potential vehicle for political critique in the 1890s, ...
Popular Indian cinema is clearly a worldwide phenomenon. But what often gets overlooked in this celebration is this cinema's intricate relationship with global dynamics since its very inception in the 1890s. with contributions from a range of international scholars, this volume analyses the transnational networks of India's popular cinema in terms of its production, narratives and reception. The first section of the book, Topographies, concentrates on the ...
Down through the ages, through the strenuous work of social and political philosophers and social reformers, the human civilization has changed from a mob of uncontrolled people through primitive to modern human society. Thus, form a mass of people it has changed to well-governed society. However, for the maintenance and development of society it is must that future citizens are included with traits to make them useful for human civilization. Towards this end, ...