| Description |
1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- The Indian paradox: High democracy and low civility -- What civility 'is' and is 'not' -- Why civility? -- Civility in crisis and beyond: introducing the chapters -- From democracy to civility -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Rural civilities: Caste, gender, and public life in Kerala -- Is there an Indian Public? Multiple publics, gender, caste -- Civility, gender, and space -- Progressive civility -- The rural library -- Private-publics -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements |
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Funding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Christian conundrum: Minority citizens and the incivility of caste -- Fraternity and civility -- Civility and democracy -- Turn to fraternity -- Christianity, caste and civility -- In the final consideration: return to civility via fraternity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Disjunctions of democracy and liberalism: Agonistic imaginations of dignity in Bihar -- The problem: liberal hegemony of democracy -- Towards an agonistics of democracy -- Bihar: democracy against liberalism -- Repertoires of agonism: vocabularies of dignity |
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Idioms of conflict -- Constrained conflict -- Agonistic imaginations of dignity: beyond liberal and postcolonial frameworks -- The agonistics of democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: To be a Hindu citizen: Politics of Dalit migrants in contemporary West Bengal -- The suspect migrant in the Hindu Nation -- Dalit migrants: the worst victims of partition -- 'Refugee versus Infiltrator': communalisation of the migrant -- The politics of Dalit refugees -- Lok Sabha elections 2019, the CAA and the NRC -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 5: Modernity without alterity: Caste associations and Hindu cosmopolitanism in contemporary Mumbai -- Caste, urbanism and Hindu cosmopolitanism -- What is urban cosmopolitanism? -- Urban cosmopolitanism in India -- Hindu cosmopolitanism -- Caste associations and Hindu cosmopolitanism in Mumbai -- The Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin Sangh -- The Nerul Nair Seva Samaj -- Phadke and caste cosmopolitanism? -- Hindu cosmopolitanism and the impossibility of alterity -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 6: Towards greater civility: Public morality and transversal queer/feminist politics in India -- Locating the queer/feminist, the performer of sexual labour and transversal politics -- Contentions over caste, sexuality, and labour: attempts at dialogue -- Attempts at transversal politics: resonances with Dr. Ambedkar's conception of radical democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Inter-caste accommodations and minimal civility in rural India -- How accommodations are achieved -- Contrasting perceptions, dilemmas and calculations of negotiators: higher castes |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gorringe, Hugo
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| ISBN |
9781000333619 |
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1000333612 |
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