De-centring Dominant Narratives in India: Alternative Perceptions of History and Development

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edited by Sanjukta Das Gupta, Amit Prakash. Fabrizio Serra, 2018, pp. 176 con figure in bianco/nero n.t. -- 'Mainstream' histories, premodern, colonial, or postcolonial, have often been critiqued for their association with centres of power, whether of hegemonic states or of their elites, who reimagine the past so as to prevent possible contestations of their status. The 'challengers', on the other hand, attempt to appropriate and subvert such legitimations of power. In India today, challenges to the dominant discourse are posed both by subaltern communities who had for long been erased from or marginalized within the mainstream discourse, as well as by dissenting interest groups within the dominant communities themselves. The rewriting of history amounts to much more than a simple retelling of history from the perspectives of the margins. It can be act of re-appropriation by the hitherto silenced and excluded groups who thus attempt to write themselves into nation's past, which almost inevitably lead to multiple contentions and competing claims. This volume seeks to re-appraise vernacular narratives of the past and the present and critically examine the impact of various factors (social and political movements; symbols and imaginings; law and policy) in envisioning multiple, dialogic and counter-hegemonic futures. In doing so it highlights some of the following issues: Inclusion/exclusion/contestations of the mainstream; reconstructing or reimagining the past and its deployment; processes and structures of such contests; and/or their normalization; boundedness by social or territorial delimitations; alternative models of dialogic and counter-hegemonic futures. In addition to reinterpretation of histories of marginalized communities, there are instances of grassroots communities themselves engaging in re-narration through their participation in the political process. This volume includes important contributions, which examine both these strands of re-interrogation and reformulation of dominant narratives. Taken together, articles highlight different facets of the new emergent subjectivities in colonial and contemporary India and explore how these can challenge, rewrite and reinvent the 'dominant' narratives. Le storie 'dominanti', premoderne, coloniali o postcoloniali, sono state spesso criticate per la loro associazione con i centri del potere, siano essi di stati egemonici o delle loro élites, che reimmaginano il passato in modo da prevenire possibili contestazioni al loro status. Gli 'sfidanti', d'altra parte, tentano di appropriarsi e sovvertire tali legittimazioni del potere. Oggi, in India, le sfide al racconto dominante sono poste sia dalle comunità subalterne, che sono state per lungo tempo cancellate o marginalizzate all'interno della narrazione principale, sia da gruppi di interesse dissidenti all'interno delle stesse élites. La riscrittura della storia è correlata a molto più di una semplice rivisitazione da prospettive marginali. Può essere un atto di riappropriazione da parte di gruppi finora silenziosi ed esclusi, che tentano così di scrivere se stessi nel passato della nazione, cosa che, quasi inevitabilmente, porta a molteplici contese e rivendicazioni concorrenti. Questo volume cerca di rivalutare le narrazioni vernacolari del passato e del presente e di esaminare criticamente l'impatto di vari fattori (movimenti sociali e politici, simboli e immaginazioni, leggi e politica) nella visione di un futuro multiplo, dialogico e contro-egemonico. Nel farlo evidenzia alcune delle seguenti questioni: inclusione / esclusione / contestazioni della storia 'convenzionale'; ricostruzione o reimmaginazione del passato e del suo dispiegamento; processi e strutture di tali contesti; e / o la loro normalizzazione; limitazioni sociali o territoriali; modelli alternativi di futuro dialogico e contro-egemonico. Oltre alla reinterpretazione delle storie delle comunità emarginate, ci sono casi in cui le stesse comunità si impegnano.

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De-centring Dominant Narratives in India: Alternative Perceptions of History and Development
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