Asian Research

New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India

The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films

By Anuradha Needham

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history. The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his...

To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge

Hindi Cinema

Repeating the Subject

By Nandini Bhattacharya

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the...

Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge

Medical Marginality in South Asia

Situating Subaltern Therapeutics

Edited by David Hardiman, Projit Mukharji

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both...

Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge

Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India

Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires

By Adrian Carton

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity,...

Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge

Subalternity and Difference

Investigations from the North and the South

Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of ‘subalternity’ and ‘difference’ simultaneously constitute and interrupt each other. The authors explore the historical...

Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge

Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and its Diaspora

Edited by Deana Heath, Chandana Mathur

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the...

Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge

Subalternity and Religion

The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia

By Milind Wakankar

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi literature and criticism, the book brings...

Published February 16th 2010 by Routledge

Subaltern Citizens and their Histories

Investigations from India and the USA

Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and marginalized people, the essays presented here devote...

Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge