A Matter of Principle : Political Economy and the Making of Postcolonial Modernity in India : A Foucauldian Approach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rieck, Katja.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 pages)

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Place of Publication:

Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Introduction

Chapter I Anthropology and the Study of Modernity/ies: Past and Present

Chapter II Conceptual Framework for a Foucauldian Analysis of Modernity and its Others and an Overview of the Present Study

Part One Economy in Governance and Political Discourse: The European Context

Chapter III Towards a New Mode of Governance: Re-imagining the Nation as Company in 16th- and 17th-Century Britain

Chapter IV From National Commerce to Commercial Nation: The Making of a Commercial Society in the 17th Century

Chapter V From Discourses on Trade to Political Economy: The Emergence of a Science of Government and Public Administration

Chapter VI Political Economy and the Modern British Nation-State: From Managing the State to Calls for Ac-countable Government

Part Two Economy in Governance and Political Discourse: The Imperial Common-Wealth

Chapter VII Economy and the New Imperial Order: Ac-countable Colonial Governance in 19th-Cenutry India

Chapter VIII Economy and Empire's Civilising Mission: The Project of Indian Improvement

Part Three Economy in the Emergence of a Nationalist Order: Critical Re-Visions of the Imperial Common-Wealth

Chapter IX From Accountability to Nationalist Calls to Account: Economy and the Contestation of the Imperial Common-Wealth

Chapter X The Common-Wealth vs. National Economy: Critiques of British Hegemony and The Emergence of an Alternative Order

Chapter XI National Economy and the Reconceptualization of Indian Improvement

Chapter XII Swadeshi and Alternative Approaches to Indian Improvement: From Critique to the Construction of a (post)Colonial Economy

Part Four Economy and the Emergence of a Postcolonial Order: Cultural and Religious Re-Visions of India

Chapter XIII Commercial Society's Other: The Village as Object of Knowledge and the Relativisation of Political Economy

Chapter XIV The Indian Village: From Object of Improvement to Civilisational Exemplar

Chapter XV The Indian Village Economy: Commercial Society's Other and the Remaking of the Project of Improvement

Chapter XVI Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Rieck, Katja A Matter of Principle : Political Economy and the Making of Postcolonial Modernity in India: A Foucauldian Approach

ISBN:

9783748903994

3748903995

Publisher Number:

99985889722

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