Keywords for India: a conceptual lexicon for the 21st century

By:

Nair, Rukmini Bhaya (Ed.)

Contributor(s):

DeSouza, Peter Ronald (Ed.)

Publication details: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. New York:Description: xiv; 467 p. pb; 24 cmISBN:

9781350039230

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

954.0533014 NAI

Online resources:

Mehta, Mona G., “Chunaav/Election”, in Keywords for India: a conceptual lexicon for the 21st century, London: Bloomsbury, Feb. 2020, ISBN: 9781350039230, 9781350039247.
Mehta, Mona G., “Jumla”, in Keywords for India: a conceptual lexicon for the 21st century, London: Bloomsbury, Feb. 2020, ISBN: 9781350039230, 9781350039247.

Summary: What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly context s . Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
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What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly context s . Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.

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