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Musicophilia in Mumbai

Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious

By: Tejaswini Niranjana

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Musicophilia in Mumbai

Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious

By: Tejaswini Niranjana

In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers as well as her own personal experiences as a student of Hindustani classical music, Niranjana shows how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening that brought together people of diverse social and linguistic backgrounds. This culture produced modern subjects Niranjana calls musicophiliacs, whose subjectivity was grounded in a social rather than an individualistic context. By attending concerts, learning instruments, and performing at home and in various urban environments, musicophiliacs embodied forms of modernity that were distinct from those found in the West. In tracing the relationship between musical practices and the formation of the social subject, Niranjana opens up new ways to think about urbanity, subjectivity, culture, and multiple modernities.

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1478009195

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9781478009191

An Activist Approach to Biodiversity Planning

A Handbook of Participatory Tools Used to Prepare India's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

By: Tejaswini Apte

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An Activist Approach to Biodiversity Planning

A Handbook of Participatory Tools Used to Prepare India's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

By: Tejaswini Apte

Based on interviews with over 190 people involved in the NBSAP in four Indian states, this review moves beyond general principles of particpation, identifying precise approaches that work to include diverse local opinions - along with associated risks and pitfalls - emerging from on-the-ground experience. A range of successful tools are explained step-by-step to help practitioners adapt and design appropriate approaches for their own contexts internationally.--COVER.

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1843695480

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9781843695486

Mobilizing India

Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

By: Tejaswini Niranjana

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Mobilizing India

Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

By: Tejaswini Niranjana

Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race, and religion—in the Caribbean is different from what it means on the subcontinent. Yet the ways that “Indianness” is conceived of and performed in India and in Trinidad have historically been, and remain, intimately related. Offering an innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities “back home,” Tejaswini Niranjana models a necessary project: comparative research across the global South, scholarship that decenters the “first world” West as the referent against which postcolonial subjects understand themselves and are understood by others. Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chutney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India. She illuminates debates in India about “the woman question” as they played out in the early-twentieth-century campaign against indentured servitude in the tropics. In so doing, she reveals India’s disavowal of the indentured woman—viewed as morally depraved by her forced labor in Trinidad—as central to its own anticolonial struggle. Turning to the present, Niranjana looks to Trinidad’s most dynamic site of cultural negotiation: popular music. She describes how contested ideas of Indian femininity are staged by contemporary Trinidadian musicians—male and female, of both Indian and African descent—in genres ranging from new hybrids like chutney-soca to the older but still vibrant music of Afro-Caribbean calypso.

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285

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Duke University Press

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0822388421

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9780822388425

Producing Bollywood

Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry

By: Tejaswini Ganti

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Producing Bollywood

Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry

By: Tejaswini Ganti

These efforts have been enabled by the neoliberal restructuring of the Indian state and economy since 1991.

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442

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Duke University Press

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0822352133

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9780822352136

Book's by Tejaswini Kar

Musicophilia in Mumbai

Musicophilia in Mumbai

An Activist Approach to Biodiversity Planning

An Activist Approach to Biodiversity Planning

Mobilizing India

Mobilizing India

Producing Bollywood

Producing Bollywood

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