Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (eBook, PDF)

2nd Edition
Redaktion: Jacobsen, Knut A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This revised and updated new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. It presents new developments and advancements in the research literature and includes discussions of the major political change in India since the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.

This Handbook contains chapters by the field's foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in India's current cultural and social transformation. This new edition also contains six new chapters on topics not covered by the first edition, such as changes caused by the Hindu majoritarian political ideology, the Hinduization process in the northeast of India and contemporary Dalit and Adivasi literatures. Following an introduction by the editor, the book is divided into five parts:

Part I: Foundation

Part II: India and the world

Part III: Society, class, caste and gender

Part IV: Religion and diversity

Part V: Cultural change and innovations

Exploring the cultural changes and innovations relating a number of contexts in contemporary India, this Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Indian and South Asian culture, politics and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 614
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000984118
• Artikelnr.: 69120150

Autorenporträt

Knut A. Jacobsen is a Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. His most recent book published by Routledge is Yoga in Modern Hinduism (2018) and the co-edited book Religion and Technology in India (2018), and he is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Contemporary India: Foundation, relations, diversity, religions
and change Part I: Foundation Chapter 2. Partitioning India: Dreams,
Memories and Legacies; Chapter 3. Symbiosis and Resilience: The Dynamics of
Social Change and Transition to Democracy in India; Chapter 4. Foundations
for a Sustainable Growth: India's Constitution and its Supreme Court;
Chapter 5. Economic Foundation of India; Chapter 6. Equity, Quantity and
Quality: The Precarious Balancing act in India's Schools; Chapter 7.
Agriculture and the Development Burden; Chapter 8. From Composite
Nationalism to Hindu Majoritarianism: India's Transition Part II India and
the World Chapter 9. Politics, Security and Foreign Policy; Chapter 10. Is
India a South Asian or an Asian Power? Chapter 11. India's Role as a Global
Development Partner; Chapter 12. Dispersals, Migrations, the Notion of an
Indian Diaspora and the Diversity of Communities; Chapter 13. Matters That
Matter: Material Religion in Contemporary Hinduism; Chapter 14.
International networks supporting Hindutva; Chapter 15. Yoga and Physical
Culture: Transnational History and Blurred Discursive Contexts Part III
Society, Class, Caste and Gender Chapter 16. The Politics of Economic
Reforms in India; Chapter 17. Divided We Stand: The Indian City after
Economic Liberalisation; Chapter 18. India's Middle Classes in Contemporary
India; Chapter 19. Caste: Why Does It Still Matter? Chapter 20. Hindutva
and hygiene: Swachh Bharat Mission as an urban spatial purification
project; Chapter 21. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern India:
History. Patronage, and the Moral Politics of Anti-colonialism; Chapter 22.
Regional Perspective: Gujarat and the Contradictory Co-existence of
Economic Enterprise and Political Illiberalism; Chapter 23. Intimate Spaces
of Struggle: Rethinking Family and Marriage in Contemporary India; Chapter
24. Adivasis and Contemporary India: Engagements with the state, non-state
actors and the capitalist economy Part IV Religion and Diversity Chapter
25. Myth as History and History as Myth: The Instructive Case of India;
Chapter 26. Hindu Pilgrimage Sites and Travel: Infrastructure, Economy,
Identity and Conflicts; Chapter 27. Death of the Sacred: Cow, Caste and
Hindu Nationalism; Chapter 28. Hindutva Becoming in the Northeast of India
; Chapter 29. Ambedkar's Life and His Navayana Buddhism; Chapter 30.
Religion, Identity and Empowerment: The Making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit
Religion) in Contemporary Punjab; Chapter 31. Muslims in Contemporary
India: Socio-religious Diversity and the Questions of Citizenship; Chapter
32. India's Muslim Minority: Religious Violence and Why India's Crime
Statistics Cannot be Trusted; Chapter 33. Christians in India: Living on
the Margins with a Diverse and Controversial Past Part V Cultural Change
and Innovations Chapter 34. 'We Too Have the Sun': Literatures from the
Adivasi and Dalit communities of East India; Chapter 35. Combative
Constructions of Femininity in the Late Twentieth Century Narratives of
India; Chapter 36. Masculinity and Muscularity in a Changing India:
Socioeconomic Mobility among New ('Lower') Middle Class Mens; Chapter 37.
Changing Food Habits in Contemporary India: Discourses and practices among
the middle classes; Chapter 38. Coping with the Diseases of Modernity: The
use of siddha medical knowledge and practices to treat patients with
diabetes; Index

Rezensionen

Jacobsen [...] who edited the authoritative Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (2020) and coedited Religion and Technology in India (2020), here offers a very useful addition to Routledge's series of handbooks on a huge variety of subjects. [...] this handbook, which updates the first edition, is thematic and divided into five main categories, each containing didactic essays by 39 different contributors: "Foundation"; "India and the World"; "Society, Class, Caste and Gender"; "Religion and Diversity"; and "Cultural Change and Innovations." Almost all of the contributors are young scholars who offer a postmodern take on traditional subjects, with the major exception being the late Eleanor Zelliot, who was a specialist on Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and the Dalits. This volume reflects the postmodern move from writing political history, even when writing historical accounts, to developing sociological narratives and themes. On that account it is an excellent addition to university libraries."

R. D. Long, Eastern Michigan University, USA