Another South Asia!

EDITOR-  Dev Nath Pathak

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  • EDITOR :  Dev Nath Pathak
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  • Year : 2018
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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