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1. Political Agency and Gender in India

   By Manuela Ciotti

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   This book explores the distinctive forms of women’s political engagement in democratic politics in contemporary India. It focuses on women from historically marginalised strata of society whose spaces for political participation opened up as a result of the explosion of low-caste identity politics...

   To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. Retro-modern India

   Forging the Low-caste Self

   By Manuela Ciotti

   Series: Exploring the Political in South Asia

   Firmly situated within the analytics of the political economy of a north Indian province, this book explores self-fashioning in pursuit of the modern amongst low-caste Chamars. Challenging existing accounts of national modernity in the non-West, the book argues that subaltern classes shape their...

   Published February 22nd 2010 by Routledge India