After Conversion: Cultural Histories of Modern India
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After Conversion incisively explores the mutual intersections between culture and power and the past and the present, while prudently unravelling the ways in which academic categories and social worlds come together yet fall apart.
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After Conversion incisively explores the mutual intersections between culture and power and the past and the present, while prudently unravelling the ways in which academic categories and social worlds come together yet fall apart.
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After Conversion imaginatively addresses issues of modernity and its margins, based upon an interplay between a variety of Western and non-Western perspectives. The author critically considers questions of conversion by examining colonial writings of a vernacular Christianity and by tracking the transformations of caste and sect in South Asia. He provides personal portraits of his anthropologist father as well as of an important visual artist in order to convey the dense sensuousness and moving contradictions of everyday worlds. Together, he incisively explores the mutual intersections between culture and power and the past and the present, while prudently unravelling the ways in which academic categories and social worlds come together yet fall apart.
| Author: | Saurabh Dube |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9788190618663 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 222 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Publisher: | Yoda Press |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
The author is an Indian scholar whose work combines history and anthropology, archival and field research, and subaltern studies and postcolonial perspectives. After teaching at the University of Delhi, since 1995 he is Professor of History at the Center of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. He is married to fellow cultural historian, Ishita Banerjee.
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