Imagining the Public in Modern South Asia

ISBN-13: 9781138391963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Brannon Ingram; J. Barton Scott; Sherali K. Tareen

Opis

In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, this volume explores a fuller understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term.

Spis treści

1. What is a Public? Notes from South Asia 2. Rethinking the Public through the Lens of Sovereignty 3. How to Defame a God: Public Selfhood in the Maharaj Libel Case 4. Crises of the Public in Muslim India: Critiquing ‘Custom’ at Aligarh and Deoband 5. Contesting Friendship in Colonial Muslim India 6. Booklets and Sants: Religious Publics and Literary History 7. Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question 8. Jurisprudence of Emergence: Neo-Liberalism and the Public as Market in India 9. A Different Kind of Flesh: Public Obscenity, Globalisation and the Mumbai Dance Bar Ban 10. Commissioning Representation: The Misra Report, Deliberation and the Government of the People in Modern India 11. Postscript: Exploring Aspects of ‘the Public’ from 1991 to 2014