Interpreting politics : situated knowledge, India, and the Rudolph legacy / John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190991296 (ebook) :Subject(s): India -- Social conditions
| India -- Economic conditions | India -- Politics and government -- 1947- | Rudolph, Lloyd I | Rudolph, Susanne HoeberAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190125011DDC classification: 320.954 LOC classification: HN683.5Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text investigates how people construct meaning and motivation for political action. Building on Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph's seminal scholarship of India, it develops the concept of situated knowledge to argue that people's capacity to empathize and dehumanize as well as their engagement in ongoing discourses and ideational power shape their political action. The volume illuminates contemporary Indian politics by showing how political leadership can transform people's understandings and cause dramatic political transformation.
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This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text investigates how people construct meaning and motivation for political action. Building on Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph's seminal scholarship of India, it develops the concept of situated knowledge to argue that people's capacity to empathize and dehumanize as well as their engagement in ongoing discourses and ideational power shape their political action. The volume illuminates contemporary Indian politics by showing how political leadership can transform people's understandings and cause dramatic political transformation.
Specialized.
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