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- EDITOR : Dev Nath Pathak
- HB ISBN : 978-93-86552-58-7
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- Year : 2018
- Extent : 338 pp.
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What does the idea/concept of South Asia mean in a time when borders have become absolute, predetermining our sense of self, culture, and politics? In a critical and creative engagement with this question, Another South Asia! attempts to explore novel possibilities beyond the stratagem of nation states. Amidst the shrinking utopias in the various disciplinary discourses due to the predominance of cartographic reason, the essays in this book propose a new lease to the utopian imagination of the region. Grounded in history, civilization, culture, and people across boundaries, located in the domain of post-disciplinary enquiries, this book enables a dialogue among the Sociologists and Social Anthropologists, students and scholars of International Relations, Literary and Performance studies, Art History, Diaspora studies, Historical and Civilizational studies and South Asian studies to name a few. This book will interest scholars as well as ordinary readers and persuade them to imagine another South Asia to ensure a better future of the region.
The Editor
Dev Pathak teaches Sociology at the South Asian University, New Delhi.
What does the idea/concept of South Asia mean in a time when borders have become absolute, predetermining our sense of self, culture, and politics? In a critical and creative engagement with this question, Another South Asia! attempts to explore novel possibilities beyond the stratagem of nation states. Amidst the shrinking utopias in the various disciplinary discourses due to the predominance of cartographic reason, the essays in this book propose a new lease to the utopian imagination of the region. Grounded in history, civilization, culture, and people across boundaries, located in the domain of post-disciplinary enquiries, this book enables a dialogue among the Sociologists and Social Anthropologists, students and scholars of International Relations, Literary and Performance studies, Art History, Diaspora studies, Historical and Civilizational studies and South Asian studies to name a few. This book will interest scholars as well as ordinary readers and persuade them to imagine another South Asia to ensure a better future of the region.
The Editor
Dev Pathak teaches Sociology at the South Asian University, New Delhi.
Table Of Contents
List of Plates | vii-viii |
Preface | ix-xiv |
1. Introduction: On ‘Another’ of ‘South Asia’ | 1-25 |
Dev Nath Pathak | |
I. Scheme of Reasoning: | |
Cartography and Beyond | |
2. Conceptualizing South Asia as a World Region: An Analytic of its Contemporary De-worlding | |
Shail Mayaram | 29-47 |
3. Geopolitical Calculus or Civilizational Ethos: Alternative Trajectories for South Asia’s Future | |
Navnita Chadha Behera | 48-70 |
II. Socio-Political Dynamics: | |
Presence and Absence | |
4. The Fate of a Text: András Höfer’s Study of the Muluki Ain and the Limitations of South Asian Area Studies | |
Arjun Guneratne | 73-93 |
5. Imagining South Asia Differently: Towards a Non-instrumentalist Idea of Regional Consciousness | |
Ravi Kumar | 94-104 |
6. Fluid Faiths of South Asia: Thinking through Ravidassia in Punjab, India | 105-124 |
Santosh Kumar Singh | |
7. Silences and Solidarities: Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia | |
Laxmi Murthy | 125-139 |
III. Possibilities In The Quest: | |
Utopias and Reality | |
8. Progressive Writers’ Association: A Case for South Asian Literary Imagination | |
Irfanullah Farooqi | 143-162 |
9. Melodramatic South Asia: In the Performative Scape | |
Dev Nath Pathak and Avanti Chhatre | 163-185 |
10. Reimagining Communities: Contemporary Art from India and Sri Lanka | |
Anushka Rajendran | 186-201 |
11. South Asians beyond South Asia: Issues in Diaspora | |
Jyoti Sinha and Abha Sur | 202-222 |
12. South Asian Subjectivities in Devon Avenue: Exploring Ethnic Enclaves and their Foodscapes | |
Kiranmayi Bhushi | 223-246 |
IV. Towards Futures | |
13. Re-imagining and Re-narrating South Asia: Artists’ Travel and the Practice of Visual Art as a New Experiential Cartography | |
Sasanka Perera | 251-274 |
14. South Asian Futures: A Plea for Harvesting New Images | |
Imtiaz Ahmed | 275-288 |
Bibliography | 289-310 |
Notes on Editor and Contributors | 311-314 |
Index | 315-323 |