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Rule of the commoner : DMK and the formations of the political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967 / Rajan Kurai Krishnan, Ravindran Sriramachandran, V. M. S. Subagunarajan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krishnan, Rajan Kurai, author.
- Sriramachandran, Ravindran, author.
- Subagunarajan, V. M. S. (Independent researcher), author.
- Series:
- Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
- Populism--India--Tamil Nadu--History--20th century.
- Populism.
- Political parties--India--Tamil Nadu--History--20th century.
- Political parties.
- Tamil Nadu (India)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Tamil Nadu (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has been singular in heralding and establishing a firm regional polity among the Indian states after the Indian Union was inaugurated as a republic. Academic scholarship has often treated the DMK as a Tamil nationalist or ethno-nationalist formation without conceptual clarity or critical insight. Rule of the Commoner demonstrates with persuasive evidence that the DMK appealed to a federalist and not nationalist imagination. The DMK's combining of the non-Brahmin Dravidian identity and allegiance to Tamil language led to a counter hegemonic formation of the plebes and left populism. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau, the book argues that the DMK achieved the construction of a people as Dravidian-Tamil, with Tamil being the empty signifier of the social whole, Brahmin vs. non-Brahmin divide functioning as the internal frontier leading to the formations of the political. It elaborates the conceptual scheme under the three rubrics of Ideation, Imagination and Mobilization.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Two scenes of departure
- Ideation
- Construction of 'Dravidian-Tamil' people
- The uses of language
- Human immanence
- Left populism
- Imagination
- The play is the thing
- Critical hermeneutics
- Counter-narratives
- Power of fiction
- Mobilization
- The grassroots
- The waves
- The eruption
- The climb.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jun 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781009197168 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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