Overview

Keywords for Modern India provides a powerful introduction to modern India's culture, politics and society, through an exploration of the English language vocabulary that is used in writing in and about a country that is becoming ever more in need of understanding as it becomes increasingly significant in world affairs. By two scholars who have lived and worked in different parts of India for many years, the book is modelled after the classic study of English culture and society by Raymond Williams. Like Williams' Keywords, this book too is much more than a dictionary, aiming to illuminate debates and controversies over the meanings and uses of significant words, and to explore how their meanings have changed over time, as a window on processes of social and political change.

Full Product Details

9780199665631

Table of Contents

Reviews

This book is not a dictionary or a glossary per se, but a cultural studies enterprise that examines words, their meanings, histories, and how they have changed in different contexts ... The volume's combined References and Further Reading section, organized by keyword but separate from the entries, points to resources in a lengthy, scholarly bibliography. R. N. Sharma, emeritus, Monmouth University, CHOICE

Author Information

Craig Jeffrey is Director of the International Graduate School at the University of Oxford. He has conducted academic research on youth, politics, and education in India. His recent books include Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India (2010) and India Today: Economy, Society, Politics (2012 with Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss). He is Professor of Development Geography at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of Geography at St. John's College. John Harriss was previously Professor and Director of the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics; and sometime Dean of the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is a social anthropologist with long standing interests in the politics and political economy of India, where he has lived and conducted research on many occasions. He is Professor, and founding Director of the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University; Visiting Research Professor, National University of Singapore.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available