Regional modernities
Subtitle: the cultural politics of development in India
By: edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal.
Contributors: Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957-; Agrawal, Arun, 1962-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Globalization.; Economic development -- Social aspects -- India.; Regionalism -- India.; India -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regional modernities in stories and practices of development / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Arun Agrawal; title: The transmission of development : problems of scale and socialization / Akhil Gupta; title: Developing women : the traffic in ideas about women and their needs in Kangra, India / Kim Berry; title: 'Difficult work' : becoming developed / Rebecca Klenk; title: Building India's 'modern temples' : Indians and Americans in the Damodar Valley Corporation, 1945-60 / Daniel Klingensmith; title: 'Shelter' in modern Delhi / Vijay Prashad; title: Beyond blackmail : multivalent modernities and the cultural politics of development in India / Donald S. Moore; title: Development, nationalism, and the time of the primitive : the Dangs darbar / Ajay Skaria; title: Educating entrepreneurs, organizing for social justice : NGO development strategies in New Delhi bastis / Sangeeta Luthra; title: Mukkuvar modernity : development as a cultural identity / Ajantha Subramanian; title: Development counter-narratives : taking social movements seriously / Subir Sinha; title: Rethinking boundaries / Angelique Haugerud; title: On binaries and boundaries / David Mosse; title: Beyond the local/global divide : knowledge for tree management in Madhya Pradesh / Sonja Brodt; title: Modernity in a suitcase : an essay on immigrant Indian writing / Amitava S. Kumar; title: Policing and erasing the global/local border : Rajasthani foresters and the narrative ecology of modernization / Paul Robbins; title: State, place, identity : two stories in the making of region / Itty Abraham.