1 option
Cosmopolitan elites : Indian diplomats and the social hierarchies of global order / Kira Huju.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huju, Kira, 1991- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diplomatic and consular service--India.
- Diplomatic and consular service.
- India. Ministry of External Affairs.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This resource offers a critical sociological examination of the elite Indian Foreign Service and its members, examining how Indian diplomats learned to live under a Westernised world order, and also, exploring what their experience reveals about social hierarchies under global order.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Actually existing cosmopolitanism
- Who are the cosmopolitan elite?
- Rethinking diversity and difference
- Cosmopolitan theory, cosmopolitan practice
- Analytical boundary-making
- Outline of the book
- 1 Method: Power, pluralism, and privilege
- The politics of universality
- Liberal neutrality and the question of difference
- Power past the postcolonial
- The social codes of elite belonging
- A sociology of silences
- A lexicon of distinction and domination
- The diplomatic cleft habitus in India
- Unfaithful readings
- Caste as a category of distinction
- Positionality and method
- Reading silences
- Saying diversity, practising sameness
- Conclusion
- 2 Genealogy: Balliol and Bandung
- The genealogy of a cleft
- The founders
- The education of an (anti)imperial elite
- Race and belonging in European international society
- The postcolonial metamorphosis
- The radical potential of postcolonial reordering
- Brave old world
- 3 World-making: Protest and protocol
- A revolution unfinished
- Third World difference
- The practice of postcoloniality
- Reversing the moral gaze
- The cosmopolitan standard of civilization
- Sisir Gupta's paradox
- The cultural capital of constructive ambiguity
- Provincializing European international society
- Non-universal cosmopolitanism
- Cosmopolitanism and power
- Caste and race in international society
- 4 Representation: Cosmopolitan elites, domestic Others
- Elite reproduction, disrupted
- Corps d'lite
- Selection as exclusion
- Deregulated ambitions
- The standard bearers
- Presence and presentation
- Who has merit?
- The segregation of social capital
- Cosmopolitanism as an elite aesthetic
- The cosmopolitan club.
- Diversity as decline
- 5 Pedagogy: Making diplomats in India
- A pedagogy of two worlds
- From the Raj to the Taj
- The Discovery of India
- Democratization and its discontents
- To the manner born
- Democratization as appropriation
- The diplomatic autodidacts
- 6 Interregnum: The end of the cosmopolitan elite?
- Misfires in a post-Western world
- A much-belated elegy
- Postcolonial afterlives
- Saffronizing the Foreign Service
- Trading solidarity for saffron
- Hindutva as everyday diplomatic practice
- (Inter)nationalism reconsidered
- Adaptation and resistance
- The cosmopolitan elite turned domestic Other
- Epilogue: A world of difference
- Heirs and pretenders in Naya Bharat
- Difference and recognition in global order
- The once and future cosmopolitans?
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 3, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-887494-4
- 0-19-198698-4
- 0-19-887493-6
- OCLC:
- 1407240570
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.