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The vagabond in the South Asian imagination : resilience, agency and representation / Avishek Ray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ray, Avishek, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tramps--South Asia--History.
- Tramps.
- Rogues and vagabonds--South Asia--History.
- Rogues and vagabonds.
- Travel--Social aspects.
- Travel.
- Tramps in literature.
- Rogues and vagabonds in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Sacralizing the Vagabond: The Pre-History
- Colonial Bengal and the Case of Mimicry
- Insurgent Vagabond: The Postcolonial Turn
- Demographics and Territoriality
- Picturing the Vagrant: Resurrecting From the Abyss of Proscription
- Itinerancy as a Critique of Development
- The Politics of Orientalism and Pitfalls of Scripto-centricism
- The Chimeral Face of History: Buddhist Subversion Reconsidered
- Postcolonial Literature: The Return of the Repressed
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ray, Avishek, 1985- Vagabond in the South Asian imagination
- ISBN:
- 9780367808914
- 0367808919
- 9781000412444
- 100041244X
- 9781000412406
- 1000412407
- Publisher Number:
- 40032317802
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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