03329cam a22004218i 4500 23536952 OSt 20260506174539.0 240126s2024 enk b 001 0 eng 2024001274 9781032933030 (hbk.) 23536952 DLC eng rda JKRC a-ii--- 23 303.30954 DAS.B Knowledge, power and ignorance : the Indian context / ed by Bidhan Kanti Das, Gorky Chakraborty and Abhijit Guha. 1st. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024. 2407 xvii, 365 p. ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 1295.00 Rupees Includes bibliographical references and index. "What is knowledge, and ignorance? How is it decided? Do power and power relations influence this process? Does the spread of knowledge lead to more ignorance? Is ignorance socially produced? Is knowledge always socially contextualized? This book deals with these important questions on the interplay of knowledge, ignorance and power located in varied contexts in India. As systematic knowledge grows, so does the possibility of ignorance. Ignorance is a state which people attribute to others and is loaded with moral judgment. Thus, being underdeveloped often 'implies a kind of stupidity or failure'. This volume seeks to be premised in a framework where ignorance is understood as being a socially produced and maintained phenomenon, where the ways of knowing and not knowing are interdependent. It is a novel attempt for an academic re-orientation of the Knowledge-Ignorance paradigm through a process of re-interpretation of the bounded purview attached with the existing epistemological understandings. It focuses on concrete case studies, often with an ethnographic stint. The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and the State; Natural Resources, Power and Ignorance; Media and Production of Non-Knowledge; and other emerging areas. Each essay bears a striking similarity - that of understanding the complex processes and dynamics of the production of ignorance in a field of commonly held beliefs of 'knowledge' - be it scientific, societal, religious, magical or political - through the overarching realm of power. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to a cross-section of academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science, human geography, history, public policy and development studies"-- Provided by publisher. Power (Social sciences) India. 39897 Knowledge, Theory of India. 39898 Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) 39899 Philosophy Das, Bidhan Kanti. editor 18545 Chakraborty, Gorky. editor 39900 Guha, Abhijit. editor 39901 Online version: Knowledge, power and ignorance Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781003485704 (DLC) 2024001275 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc 1 23 0 614095 614095 0 0 ddc 0 0 2 2 2026-03-09 Classic Book Distributors, 8537 / 04-02-2026 523967 0 303.30954 DAS.B 523967 2026-03-09 1295.00 2026-03-09 1 1295.00 Rupees