Keywords For India A Conceptual Lexicon For The Twentyfirst Century Rukmini Bhaya Nair Rukmini Bhaya Nair by Rukmini Bhaya Nair; Rukmini Bhaya Nair 9781350039247, 9781350039230, 9781350039261, 1350039241, 1350039233, 1350039268 instant download after payment.

What terms are currently defining Indian society? How have their meanings and uses changed over time? This book highlights the key words for modern India in everyday use as well as in scholarly context. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including art and aesthetics, festivals and ceremony, gender and technology, and with entries on an incredibly diverse range of words, this book introduces the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, cultural and cognitive studies.odelled after Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, leading scholars here ask the same questions about the panoply, the multitude, the shapeshifter that is 'India'. Through the close investigation and unpacking of these words, Keywords for India makes sense of the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of new vocabularies.