The vagabond in the South Asian imagination : resilience, agency and representation / Avishek Ray.
The vagabond in the South Asian imagination : resilience, agency and representation / Avishek Ray.
The vagabond in the South Asian imagination : resilience, agency and representation / Avishek Ray.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
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G 2021/1251
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English
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xi, 159 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- Sacralizing the Vagabond: The Pre-History -- Colonial Bengal and the Case of Mimicry -- Insurgent Vagabond: The Postcolonial Turn -- Demographics and Territoriality -- Picturing the Vagrant: Resurrecting From the Abyss of Proscription -- Itinerancy as a Critique of Development -- The...
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Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2022.
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Summary
"This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct 'vagabond' and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia. It describes the fraught relationship between 'native' itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and t...
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The vagabond in the South Asian imagination : resilience, agency and representation / Avishek Ray.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-151) and index.
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G 2021/1251
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74VKaVbMxjaZ
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ISBN
0367407574
9780367407575
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305.5690954
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991024416491502626
