Cultural studies in India /
edited by Rana Nayar, Pushpinder Syal and Akshaya Kumar.
- 1st ed.
- Abingdon, Oxon : New Delhi Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- xxxvi, 303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
"A Routledge India Original" -- cover. First published 2016; reprint 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cultural Studies and Indian Context. Culture and English studies in India / The return of the silenced oral: culture and study in our time / Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. The relevance of classical Indian aesthetics for contemporary culture studies / Popular culture studies in India today: issues and problems / Postcolonial cultural studies at the crossroads: theoretical approaches and practical realities / Dalit autobiographies in the Punjabi context / Cultural History and Local Traditions. Indianness: a battlefield / Cultural studies in Indian history: dominant models from South Asia / History, historiography and Punjabi folk literature: issues of canon and cultures / Uses of the folk: cultural historical practice and the Guga tradition / Cultural Politics and Mass Media. (In)visible publics: television and participatory culture in India / Transformative energy of performance: 'Budhan Theatre' as case study / Reinvention and appropriation of the folk in Daler Mehndi's pop videos / Subverting the male gaze: a case study of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara / Cultural Imagination and New Identities. New cultures of remembering: the Indian memory project / Romantic imagination: science and empire in teh works of Amitav Ghosh / Cultural economy of leisure and the Indian Premier League / Kapil Kapoor -- G.N.Devy ; Saugata Bhaduri -- Simi Malhotra -- Rumina Sethi -- Akshaya Kumar ; Sushil Kumar -- Mahesh Sharma -- Ishwar Dayal Gaur -- Anne Murphy ; Abhijit Roy -- Tutan Mukherjee -- Pushpinder Syal -- Vivek Sachdeva ; Pramod K. Nayar -- Sakoon N. Singh -- Raj Thakur. Part I. 1. 2. Part II. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part III: 7. 8. 9. 10. Part IV. 11. 12. 13. 14. Part V. 15. 16. 17.
"This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature, linguistics, history, political science, media and theatre studies, and cultural anthropology, it explores themes such as caste, indigenous peoples, vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area, this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory, literature, history, cultural anthropology, sociology, and media and mass communication."