Mobilizing India by Tejaswini Niranjana
An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities back home in India.
“Tejaswini Niranjana listens to the tones and echoes of Indianness in the Caribbean and elaborates a South–South genealogy that obligates us to reconceive the cultural geography of modernityFrom the ‘moral status of the coolie woman’ in British colonialist and Indian nationalist discourses to the figure of the ‘Indian woman’ in Afro-Trinidadian calypso, Hindi cinema musics, and female chutney-soca performances, she pronounces the gendered rhythms of popular music as subaltern cultural politics.”—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics
“Tejaswini Niranjana’s fine achievement in Mobilizing India is to have given shape to a compelling way of rethinking the conceptual agenda for the comparative study of the Third World.”—David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
“Mobilizing India. . . is a sophisticated, well-written, and engaging book which does indeed-as promised- provide a model for comparative cultural research across the global South. Those interested in Caribbean cultural studies, in the development of popular music in postcolonial societies, in identity and gender politics in a multiracial polity, will all find much that is valuable and original in this book.” -- Bridget Brereton * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
“Niranjana . . . has written a sophisticated study of women, diasporic dynamics, and ethnic identity in Indo-Trinidadian society, using popular music as a lens though which to view these. . . . Her book is certainly recommended reading for students and scholars of South Asian diasporas and Caribbean studies.” -- Peter Manuel * Ethnomusicology *
“Tejaswini Niranjana’s fine achievement in Mobilizing India is to have given shape to a compelling way of rethinking the conceptual agenda for the comparative study of the Third World.”—David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
“Mobilizing India. . . is a sophisticated, well-written, and engaging book which does indeed-as promised- provide a model for comparative cultural research across the global South. Those interested in Caribbean cultural studies, in the development of popular music in postcolonial societies, in identity and gender politics in a multiracial polity, will all find much that is valuable and original in this book.” -- Bridget Brereton * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
“Niranjana . . . has written a sophisticated study of women, diasporic dynamics, and ethnic identity in Indo-Trinidadian society, using popular music as a lens though which to view these. . . . Her book is certainly recommended reading for students and scholars of South Asian diasporas and Caribbean studies.” -- Peter Manuel * Ethnomusicology *
Tejaswini Niranjana is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore, India. She is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context and a coeditor of Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822338420 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822338424 |
| Title | Mobilizing India |
| Author | Tejaswini Niranjana |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2006-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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