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100			_aMenon, Nivedita & Others Eds. _965395
245			_aCritical studies in politics : exploring sites, selves, power
260			_aNew Delhi _bOrient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. _c2014
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505			_aTable of Contents List of Table and Photographs vii Introduction 1 Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam and Sanjay Palshikar Section 1: Exploring Selfhood 1. Asuras Through the Ages 21 Sanjay Palshikar 2. Reading a Pilgrimage Site: ‘Other’ Routes to Dalit: Assertion in Contemporary Times 45 Navprit Kaur 3. The Ascetic Modality: A Critique of Communist Self-fashioning 67 Rajarshi Dasgupta 4. Addressing Religious Belief in Political Theory: Conversations with Shia Women in Delhi 88 Ambar Ahmad Section 2: Spatiality and Power 5. Chronicle of a Death Untold: The Lethal Geographies of Delhi’s Periphery 131 Sunalini Kumar 6. In Pursuit of the Cultural Core at the Margin of India G. Amarjit Sharma 184 7. Politics and Cultures of Cinema: Delhi 1920–40 Aarti Sethi 226 Section 3: State and Governmentality 8. Assault and Assuage: Identification Documents, Colonial Rationalities and Epidemic Control in British India 271 Tarangini Sriraman 9. Convict Labour and Economy in British Colonial India: Through the Lens of Prison Management and Private Industry 319 Jyoti Bhosale 10. Population Control in India: Politics of a Science Called ‘Demography’ 356 Hidam Premananda 11. An ‘Official’ Memory of India: Monuments, Memorials and Samadhis as Political Texts 389 Hilal Ahmed Section 4: Reconfiguring Categories of Thought 12. Crisis and Critique: Diagnosis of the Present in the Nationalist Discourse in Hindi (1870–1908) 419 Mohinder Singh 13. Cooking up Nature: Science in the World of Politics 448 Nivedita Menon 14. ‘Molecular Economies’: Is There an ‘Outside’ to Capital? 482 Aditya Nigam 15. The Path Not Taken? Contesting Development in Newly Independent India 515 Janaki Srinivasan Notes on the Contributors 555
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