Rajan Kurai Krishnan, Ravindran Sriramachandran, V. M. S. Subagunarajan

Rule of the Commoner (eBook, PDF)

DMK and Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967

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Produktbeschreibung

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has been singular in heralding and establishing a firm regional polity among the Indian states after the Indian Union was inaugurated as a republic. Academic scholarship has often treated the DMK as a Tamil nationalist or ethno-nationalist formation without conceptual clarity or critical insight. Rule of the Commoner demonstrates with persuasive evidence that the DMK appealed to a federalist and not nationalist imagination. The DMK''s combining of the non-Brahmin Dravidian identity and allegiance to Tamil language led to a counter hegemonic formation of the plebes and left populism. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau, the book argues that the DMK achieved the construction of a people as Dravidian-Tamil, with Tamil being the empty signifier of the social whole, Brahmin vs. non-Brahmin divide functioning as the internal frontier leading to the formations of the political. It elaborates the conceptual scheme under the three rubrics of Ideation, Imagination and Mobilization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009276702
• Artikelnr.: 70909326

Autorenporträt

Rajan Kurai Krishnan is Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Dr B R Ambedkar University, Delhi. He regularly publishes articles on political theory, philosophy, global affairs, climate change and film theory.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Illustrations
Dedication
Introduction: Two Scenes of Departure
Part I. Ideation: 1. Construction of 'Dravidian -Tamil' People
2. The Uses of Language
3. Human Immanence
4. Left Populism
Part II. Imagination: 5. The Play is the Thing
6. Critical Hermeneutics
7. Counter Narratives
8. Power of Fiction
Part III. Mobilization: 9. The Grassroots
10. The Waves
11. The Eruption
12. The Climb
Conclusion: Formations of the Political
Bibliography
Index.