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Book Summary of Community And Identities : Contemporary Discourses On Culture And Politics In India This important volume of original essays interrogates contemporary debates, popular as well as academic, on the place of communities and cultural identities in India?s polity. In particular the contributors: - analyse some of the emerging concerns in the social and political life of contemporary India - deal with issues that are central to recent debates among social and political theorists, that is, community, identity, nation and civil society - present fresh perspectives on these issues which are of interest to most developing societies Table of Contents Preface I. COMMUNITY AND IDENTITIES: CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS: Introduction SURINDER S JODHKA The Concept of Community in Indian Social Sciences: An Anthropological Perspective CAROL UPADHYA In the Tracks of Community and Identity: Deepening the Interrogations SASHEEJ HEGDE The Eclipse or the Renaissance of `Community`?: The Career of the

Author

Surinder S. Jodhka

Publisher

Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9788178290218

Subjects

Anthropology, Social Science, Sociology