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Chakrabarty, Dipesh.

Habitations of modernity : essays in the wake of subaltern studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty ; with a foreword by Homi K. Bhabha. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002. - xxiv, 173 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Homi K. Bhabha --
Questions of History --
A Small History of Subaltern Studies --
Subaltern Histories and Post-Enlightenment Rationalism --
Modernity and the Past: A Critical Tribute to Ashis Nandy --
Practices of Modernity --
Khadi and the Political Man --
Of Garbage, Modernity, and the Citizen's Gaze --
Governmental Roots of Modern Ethnicity --
The Ethical and the In-Human --
The Subject of Law and the Subject of Narratives --
Memories of Displacement: The Poetry and Prejudice of Dwelling --
The In-Human and the Ethical in Communal Violence. TOC



ISBN: 0226100383 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226100388 0226100391 (paper) 9780226100395

LCCN: 2002019210

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social justice--India.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Historiography.
India--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: DS435 / .C46 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 954.0072 / CHH 2002