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The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena : political matronage in urbanizing India / Tarini Bedi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bedi, Tarini, 1973-
- Series:
- SUNY series in Hindu studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--India.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- Regionalism--Political aspects.
- Regionalism.
- Urbanization--Political aspects.
- Urbanization.
- Social networks--Political aspects.
- Social networks.
- Political culture.
- Patronage, Political.
- Women political activists.
- Women politicians.
- India.
- Shiv Sena.
- Women politicians--India--Biography.
- Women political activists--India--Biography.
- Patronage, Political--India.
- Political culture--India.
- Social networks--Political aspects--India.
- Urbanization--Political aspects--India.
- Regionalism--Political aspects--India.
- India--Politics and government--1977-.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 291 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, State University of New York Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Rich in detail, this book tells the stories of women of Shiv Sena (Shivaji's Army), a militant political party in Western India. It provides insight into the political networks powered by lower-level women politicians in postcolonial, globalizing cities and on their margins. Based on more than ten years of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with the women of Shiv Sena, the work shows how women political activists in urbanizing India conjure political authority through the inventive, dangerous, and transgressive political personas known as "dashing ladies." Tarini Bedi develops a feminist theory of brokerage politics, arguing that political grids where women employ political, symbolic, and material resources through the political system may be seen as channels of what can be termed "political matronage." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Dashing, daring and the seduction of political persona
- "Just doing dashing" in uncertain places
- Performance, dashing, image
- The poetics and politics of the dashing ladies
- Political machinations, electoral campaigns and the texture of politics
- The public event : political spectacle and public sites of dashing
- Intimate politics and alliance-building
- Women, urban wisdom and the illicit politics of housing in Mumbai
- Politics and the relations of domesticity
- The gendered politics of the Malkin in Pune City.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438460321
- 1438460325
- Publisher Number:
- 99985011613
- 40025990905
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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