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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-ranging are 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 is the extraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture.
Table of Contents
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 and representation in the Bengali novel Supriya Chaudhuri
7. Writing in English Rashmi Sadana
8. Dalit life histories Debjani Ganguly
9. Three traditions in modernist art Sonal Khullar
10. Mass reproduction and the art of the bazaar Kajri Jain
11. Urban theatre and the turn towards `folk` Vasudh isbn
9781107641037
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