Main entry:

Chakrabarty, Dipesh.

Title & Author:

Habitations of modernity : essays in the wake of subaltern studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty ; with a foreword by Homi K. Bhabha.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Description:

xxiv, 173 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Homi K. Bhabha -- Questions of History -- A Small History of Subaltern Studies -- Subaltern Histories and Post-Enlightenment Rationalism -- Modernity and the Past: A Critical Tribute to Ashis Nandy -- Practices of Modernity -- Khadi and the Political Man -- Of Garbage, Modernity, and the Citizen's Gaze -- Governmental Roots of Modern Ethnicity -- The Ethical and the In-Human -- The Subject of Law and the Subject of Narratives -- Memories of Displacement: The Poetry and Prejudice of Dwelling -- The In-Human and the Ethical in Communal Violence.

Summary:

Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. These issues are pursued in a series of closely linked cultural essays.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226100383 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226100388 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226100391 (paper)
9780226100395 (paper)

Subject:

Social justice India.
Justice sociale Inde.
15.75 history of Asia.
Historiography
Politics and government
Social justice
Geschichtsschreibung
Politik
Modernisme (cultuur)
Geschiedschrijving.
Historiografia Índia.
Justiça social Índia.
India Historiography.
India Politics and government.
Inde Politique et gouvernement.
India
Indien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226381
Call No.: DS435 .C46 2002
Status: Available