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120701
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2013.
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In the Indian subcontinent, the understanding of 'the family' in numerous narrative traditions has always extended into relationships with non-humans, with a pivotal emphasis on the guru-shishya (preceptor-disciple) relationship. This paper focuses on the highly popular English-language 'juvenile fiction' of Dhan Gopal Mukerji to suggest how he reconfigured these narrative traditions for a primarily non-Indian audience in the 1920s-30s. The paper considers Mukerji's young protagonists-invariably male, whether human or animal-in relation to the web of familial and outside social relationships through which the 'quest motif' is played out for a transnational readership. The epic form pervades his 'jungle books' through the figures of the animal protagonists, the search for a leader/guide/guru, and a re-imagining of caste, ethnicity and gender. Of particular interest is the composite mother figure. Dhan Gopal's oeuvre for children maps out a socialisation that is 'free' of the apparatus of the colonial home or of other disciplining institutional sites. Paradoxically, the search to be 'free from fear' can only be played in the alternative topos of the jungle, where violence is inescapable. How, if at all, may these narrative tropes be mapped onto contemporary history?
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112481
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2012.
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Covering one hundred years, this paper recounts the life stories of three generations of middle-class women of the New Delhi-based Kapoor family. By taking the methodological view that individuals born approximately at the same time, within the same class segment, and at the same cultural place will be shaped by the same historical structures so that their lives to some extent are synchronized into a gendered, generational experience, these three life stories are viewed as voices that reflect their respective generational class segments. In view of this, the paper uses the three life stories to discuss changes in women's agency within the urban, educated, upper middle-class. Agency is here understood as control over resources, and it is argued that in order to understand changes in women's agency, one should take into account the impact of both social, economic structures and cultural ideologies. When analysing the three life stories, the overall finding is that the granddaughter has had more control over her own life than her mother and grandmother. However, by acknowledging that cultural ideologies and social economic structures are not always synchronized, a nuanced and many-dimensional picture of twists and turns in these middle-class women's degree and type of agency over time emerges.
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084232
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084233
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086773
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2009.
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One of the United Kingdom's most distinguished military historian has drawn a parallel between the decline of British military power and its manufacturing base. He noted that Whitehall tends to be dominated by classically educated people with little industrial knowledge or even comprehension.
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