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"This book explores an important yet often overlooked aspect of nationalism – its embodied and emotional dimensions. It does so by focusing on a neglected area, that of elementary education in the modern state.Through an ethnographic study of primary schools in western India, Veronique Benei examines the idioms through which teachers, students and parents make meaning of their political world. She articulates how urban middle- and lower-class citizens ...
The Everyday State and Society in Modern India focuses on how the large, amorphous and impersonal Indian state affects the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. The book argues that state and society merge in the day-to-day lives of most Indians, and the boundary between them is blurred and negotiable according to social context and position. The contributors adopt the position, contrary to that of many others, that most Indians are able to comprehend and use the ...
In the last decade, there has been an increasing internationalisation in the structure of research and academic institutions in the west. This has been accompanied by much greater visibility for Third World scholars in locations within the ‘developed’ world. The greater presence of these scholars in Western institutions has helped alter the international division of social science labour. This book, comprising a blend of autobiography and intellectual history ...