Chandi Prasad Nanda (13 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Examining questions of vernacularity and marginality, Vernacularizing Pasts explores critical concerns underlying history, time-space, modernity, and their associated discourses about Odisha. This work interrogates the idea of historicism in analytic history (History 1), whose rigid disciplinary practices stand delimited by explorations in alternative histories. Drawing on the conceptual resources of 'History 2'alternative history of subaltern pasts and historical temporalitythe first two sections of the volume trace the trajectory of the deshi in terms of a 'new aesthetic of Place'. This conception of the local as produced by vernacular literary traditions of Odisha interweaves the socio-textual orientations of its community with the aesthetics of its geo-cultural region. The problematization of the region and its identity as dependent on ideas and culture are further bolstered in the next two sections. Focusing on the complexities involved in evaluating cultural phenomena morally, epistemically, and aesthetically, these sections scrutinize the nuances of the underlying questions of region, identity and marginality. Illustrating the history of ideas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings into focus the hitherto-unexplored literary and political figures of Odisha which ushered in a regional cultural transformation within the broader nationalist movement. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. The Second Orissa Research Project of the German Research Council complemented the first one on the great tradition of Jagannatha of Puri with comprehensive studies on various sub-regional and local traditions and identities in the hinterland of dominant coastal Orissa. The present volume introduces (auto) biographies as a fascinating new source for the study of local history and contemporary politics. The narrative brings out the under explored history and identity politics and cultural assertion of a marginal community like Kurmi Mahantas of Orissa in the quest of their Adivasi identity. The work contains, along with its original version, an abridged English translation of the Biography of Niranjan Mahanta, a little known but vital socio-religious reformer of the Kurmi community. The biography focuses on Niranjan's life and time and his engagements as a community activist. It offers insights into the popular culture and the social history of the former Feudatory State of Mayurbhanj in Northern Orissa and its neighbouring districts in present-day Jharkhand and West Bengal. The study exemplifies how a marginal community was engaged in re-defining and locating itself within the hegemonic social order as dominated by the Hindu Brahmanical tradition while battling against the very order. (jacket).…

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