UID:
kobvindex_HPB1224364265
Format:
1 online resource (485 pages)
ISBN:
9783748903994
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3748903995
Content:
In 'On Governmentality', Michel Foucault linked the emergence of the science of political economy to a new kind of power unique to the modern order. Departing from this observation, but integrating the wider imperial context of this historical shift by examining developments in the British Empire, the first part of this study analyses how the science of political economy was linked to the emergence of new identities, social practices as well as forms of political intervention and resistance in not only metropolises and colonies, but also the wider context of the Pax Britannica. The second part of the study analyses how these global entanglements shaped the conditions which made the emergence of anti- and postcolonial counter discourses and practices in India possible. By tracing how Indian imaginings of postcolonial modernity and concomitant practices of resistance emerged from engagements with globally circulating discourses on political economy, it shows the mutual entanglement between Western modernity and its postcolonial alternatives.--
Note:
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
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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
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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
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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
Additional Edition:
Print version: Rieck, Katja. A Matter of Principle : Political Economy and the Making of Postcolonial Modernity in India: A Foucauldian Approach. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, ©2020 ISBN 9783848762927
Language:
English
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
