A wide-ranging and truly interdisciplinary guide to understanding the relationship between India's colonial past and globalized present. An account of major forms of culture in modern India, including literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food. These new essays examine the cultural and political questions most pertinent today, especially in light of economic liberalization from the late 1980s onward and complex processes of globalization. An account of major forms of culture in modern India, including literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food. These new essays examine the cultural and political questions most pertinent today, especially in light of economic liberalization from the late 1980s onward and complex processes of globalization. India is changing at a rapid pace asit continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and daily life. In a series of engaging, erudite and occasionally moving essays the contributors, drawn from a variety of disciplines, examine not merely what constitutes modern Indian culture, but just how wide-rangingare the cultures that persist in the regions of India. This volume will help the reader understand the continuities and fissures within Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising from them. Throughout, what comes to the fore isthe extraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture. INDICE: Chronology; Introduction Rashmi Sadana and Vasudha Dalmia; Part I.Cultural Contexts: 1. Scenes of rural change Ann Grodzins Gold; 2. The formation of tribal identities Stuart Blackburn; 3. Food and agriculture Amita Baviskar; 4. Urban forms of religious practice Smriti Srinivas; 5. The politics of caste identities Christophe Jaffrelot; Part II. Cultural Forms: 6. History andrepresentation in the Bengali novel Supriya Chaudhuri; 7. Writing in English Rashmi Sadana; 8. Dalit life histories Debjani Ganguly; 9. Three traditions inmodernist art Sonal Khullar; 10. Mass reproduction and the art of the bazaar Kajri Jain; 11. Urban theatre and the turn towards 'folk' Vasudha Dalmia; 12. Aesthetics and politics in popular cinema Ravi S. Vasudevan; 13. Musical genres and national identity Amanda Weidman; 14. Voyeurism and the family on television Amrita Ibrahim; Further reading; Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-51625-9
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 326
- Fecha Publicación: 05/04/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés