Plural Cultures and Monolithic Structures: Comprehending India

Kapila Vatsyayan

ISBN 10: 9380607458 / ISBN 13: 9789380607450

Published by Primus Books, 2013

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The essays in this volume raise a set of highly pertinent questions with regard to comprehending the complex issues that arise when plural cultures meet the monolithic structures of administration and policy that accompany the aspirations of the nation state. How does the nation state with its commitment to the quantifiable collectives of caste, religion, community and even culture, respond to the fluid and multiple matrixes of region, history, social identity, ritual, and language in India? The essays explore the problems that arise when shifting cultural categories are juxtaposed against the more rigidly constructed categories created by the institutions of the state. The issues enlarged upon here are those that the author has often discussed, including the interconnectedness of the arts and the integration of body, mind and senses in the Indian artistic traditions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plural Cultures and Monolithic Structures: Comprehending India
• Publisher: Primus Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9380607458
• ISBN 13: 9789380607450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

The issues enlarged upon in this volume have often been discussed by Dr Vatsyayan, including the interconnectedness of the arts and the integration of body, mind and senses in the Indian artistic traditions. She pursues the possibility of establishing linkages between the arts, education and the sciences on the one hand, and those between the world of traditional knowledge systems, cultural expression, indigenous languages, and the more structured formal educational systems, on the other, shedding brilliant insight and perception into yet another realm of scholarly enquiry that is likely to impact our understanding of the workings of culture, the nation state, education, and policy in India.

About the Author

Dr Kapila Vatsyayan in Chairperson, Asia Project , India International Center . She is former Secretary , Ministry of Education, and was a nominated Member of Parliament . She is authorized over 150 books, besides several research papers and monograph. Amongst her publications. Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts and widely accepted as path-breaking works of critical scholarship. She has also edited several volumes of Primary texts concerning fundamentals concepts, such as space time.