Beschreibung:
In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of 'the public' has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, this volume explores a fuller understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term.
1. What is a Public? Notes from South Asia 2. Rethinking the Public through the Lens of Sovereignty 3. How to Defame a God: Public Selfhood in the Maharaj Libel Case 4. Crises of the Public in Muslim India: Critiquing 'Custom' at Aligarh and Deoband 5. Contesting Friendship in Colonial Muslim India 6. Booklets and Sants: Religious Publics and Literary History 7. Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question 8. Jurisprudence of Emergence: Neo-Liberalism and the Public as Market in India 9. A Different Kind of Flesh: Public Obscenity, Globalisation and the Mumbai Dance Bar Ban 10. Commissioning Representation: The Misra Report, Deliberation and the Government of the People in Modern India 11. Postscript: Exploring Aspects of 'the Public' from 1991 to 2014