Reading Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues

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MK Raghavendra

Reading Contemporary India

An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues

MK Raghavendra

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Routledge
11 February 2025

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Asian history; Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Cultural studies

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations. It does this by going back to various aspects of India’s past, stretching back several millennia to those owing to public policy after independence. Many of the issues today, such as those named above, can be traced to racial mixing through centuries, which has created a multitude of conflicts that need solutions today. The book is divided into separate chapters corresponding to the issues needing addressing, and a brief note at the conclusion of each chapter makes connections with issues dealt in other chapters. The book has an introduction tracing a significant portion of India’s past and an afterword identifying crisis areas in the present.

By: MK Raghavendra
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9781032897370
ISBN 10: 1032897376
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

MK Raghavendra is a scholar-critic of culture, literature and cinema, with political discourse as his chosen field of analysis. He won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997 and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2000, after which he has published a number of books, both academic and popular, from a number of international publishers, including Routledge. His writing has been translated into French, Spanish and Polish, and two of his books have been translated into Russian. His titles include Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema (2008), Bipolar Identity: Region, Nation and the Kannada Language Film (2011), The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation (2014), Locating World Cinema: Interpretations of Film as Culture (2020), Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts (2020), The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings (2024), The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity (2021), The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite: The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age (2022), 50 Indian Film Classics (2009) and Director’s Cut: 50 Filmmakers of the Modern Era (2013).