Pratyaha: Everyday Lifeworlds Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations

EDITOR- Prasanta Ray and Nandini Ghosh

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Pratyaha is the Sanskritized Bengali word for ‘everyday’ for everybody.
The neglect of everyday lifeworlds is due to a taken-for-granted belief that the realm of everyday is the site for common sense and the common place, the very well known, perhaps even the trivial. It is our sense of familiarity with routine relations and their sheer temporariness which casualizes our attitude towards our daily lived existence. True to the specific genre of critical everyday studies, the focus is on the dilemmas, contestations and negotiations between the self and the other, the ‘normal’ and the ‘unusual’, the sacral and the secular, and the explicit and the enigmatic. As usual, numerous actants play critical roles. In many of these reconstructions, women with different degrees of agency and powerlessness stand out as protagonists in the everyday dialectics, inescapably embedded in micro-structures and processes. Through a wide range of analytical modes, like narrative analysis, deconstructions of autobiographies, novels and children’s stories, use of index numbers, ethnography, and interpretation of myths, this multidisciplinary volume explores a variety of everyday intimacies and estrangements in different institutional settings in the everyday lifeworlds, mainly of the contemporary urban Indian middle class across Islamic, Christian and Hindu frames of living.

The Editors
Prasanta Ray is Professor Emeritus with Presidency University, Kolkata; Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata; and Member, Calcutta Research Group. He has authored Conflict and the State: An Exploration in the Behaviour of the Post-colonial state in India (1991).
Nandini Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology with the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. She is also Guest Faculty with the Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University. Her article ‘Bhalo Meye: Cultural Construction of Gender and Disability in Bengal’ was published in Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities, edited by Renu Addlakha (2012).

Pratyaha is the Sanskritized Bengali word for ‘everyday’ for everybody.
The neglect of everyday lifeworlds is due to a taken-for-granted belief that the realm of everyday is the site for common sense and the common place, the very well known, perhaps even the trivial. It is our sense of familiarity with routine relations and their sheer temporariness which casualizes our attitude towards our daily lived existence. True to the specific genre of critical everyday studies, the focus is on the dilemmas, contestations and negotiations between the self and the other, the ‘normal’ and the ‘unusual’, the sacral and the secular, and the explicit and the enigmatic. As usual, numerous actants play critical roles. In many of these reconstructions, women with different degrees of agency and powerlessness stand out as protagonists in the everyday dialectics, inescapably embedded in micro-structures and processes. Through a wide range of analytical modes, like narrative analysis, deconstructions of autobiographies, novels and children’s stories, use of index numbers, ethnography, and interpretation of myths, this multidisciplinary volume explores a variety of everyday intimacies and estrangements in different institutional settings in the everyday lifeworlds, mainly of the contemporary urban Indian middle class across Islamic, Christian and Hindu frames of living.

The Author
Prasanta Ray is Professor Emeritus with Presidency University, Kolkata; Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata; and Member, Calcutta Research Group. He has authored Conflict and the State: An Exploration in the Behaviour of the Post-colonial state in India (1991).
Nandini Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology with the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. She is also Guest Faculty with the Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University. Her article ‘Bhalo Meye: Cultural Construction of Gender and Disability in Bengal’ was published in Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities, edited by Renu Addlakha (2012).

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction
Prasanta Ray
1-25
1. Sensitizing Theories
Prasanta Ray
26-65
2. Sensitive Ways of Knowing
Prasanta Ray
66-97
3. A Phoenix Everyday: An Academic’s Conscience in Ami Anupam, Phoenix and Disgrace
Debarati Bandyopadhyay
98-113
4. Everyday Life, Defamiliarization, and Desire in Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence
Mosarrap Hossain Khan
114-131
5. Voices Unsettling the Everyday: The Strange Case of the ‘Telephone’ in Bangla Literature
Runa Das Chaudhuri
132-153
6. A Pragmatic Intimacy? Familiality, Dependency and Social Subordination
Samita Sen
154-174
7. Predicament and Pride: The Everyday life of Anglo-Indian Women in Kolkata
Sudarshana Sen
175-193
8. Sobar Moto Noy: Not Like Others: Everyday Experiences of Women with Disabilities
Nandini Ghosh
194-213
9. Exploring the Everyday Lifeworld of Two Indian Goddesses: Renuka/Yellamma and Maa Manasa
Sushmita Gonsalves Mondal
214-237
10. Remembering the Pratyahik (Daily): ‘De’familiarizing Familial Social History through Memoirs
Rukmini Sen
238-258
11. ‘Sociality’ and Representations of Everyday Life of Sweetshops and Sweets
Ishita Dey
259-277
12. Anxious Hearths and Risky Meals: Re-imagining Domesticity in an Asian Worlding City
Manpreet K. Janeja
278-295
13. Everyday Consumption and Level of Living: Economists’ Approach
Dipankor Coondoo
296-314
Notes on Editors and Contributors 315-317
Index 319-333