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Cultural Studies and Politics in India Today
Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay
Goldsmiths College (University of London)
Cultural Studies needs to be reinvented for India - a polity where the larger part of the population are disenfranchised non-citizens. The terrain of ‘culture’ here being differently constituted, manners could serve as a useful category for theorizing this difference. Included in ‘manners’ are a different historical formation of subjectivity as well as another ontology of representation. Further, Cultural Studies, so conceived, could productively interrogate that excess of Indian political/public culture which cannot be penetrated by disciplinary political theory. This article is a plea for a Political Cultural Studies.
Key Words: caste • civil/political society • folk • government • manners
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Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 7-8,
279-292 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276406073230
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