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This collection of essays focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of regional modernities in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. Individual essays present case studies of development across India.

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"This is a well-conceived and well-executed anthropological collection of essays." -- Lakshmi R. Iyer * United States Department of Agriculture *
"This collection sets a very high standard of scholarship in the social science literature on development and modernity. Individually and collectively, the essays in this volume will challenge and provoke scholars engaged in the critique of development in India and elsewhere." -- Journal of Asian Studies

Regional Modernities

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    A Paperback / softback by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 30 July 2003
      ISBN-13 9780804744157
      978-0804744157
      ISBN-10 0804744157
      Also in:
      Reception or Interpretation studies / Audience Theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This collection of essays focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of regional modernities in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. Individual essays present case studies of development across India.

      Trade Review
      "This is a well-conceived and well-executed anthropological collection of essays." -- Lakshmi R. Iyer * United States Department of Agriculture *
      "This collection sets a very high standard of scholarship in the social science literature on development and modernity. Individually and collectively, the essays in this volume will challenge and provoke scholars engaged in the critique of development in India and elsewhere." -- Journal of Asian Studies

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