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Show or tell? instruction and representation in Govardhanram’s Saraswatichandra / Ashar, Meera   Article
Ashar, Meera Article
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Summary/Abstract Govardhanram Tripathi wrote the four-volume novel Saraswatichandra as an ‘instruction manual’ for a people facing fundamental social and political change during colonial rule. This article examines a shift in the conception of instruction as the text progressed through its instalments—from a notion of learning as a process of deliberation about, and experimentation with, imitable actions, to the idea of education through the representation of action—a transformation that is made conspicuous by the discordance between the widely debated and highly influential initial volumes and the largely ignored final volume. It situates this shift in broader changes in the idea of instruction in Indian society, and investigates it in order to better understand the strains involved in attempting to codify or theorize certain types of domains.
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Taking a step back: revisiting studies of Indian politics / Ashar, Meera   Journal Article
Ashar, Meera Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract How is it that the accumulating corpus of knowledge, deriving from two centuries of imperial involvement, has not proved a firmer foundation for modern political studies?1 Why-despite a rich body of work built up over more than a century by a number of eminent theorists-do the goings-on of Indian politics elude theorisation? Is the conceptual grid that provides intelligibility to the categories conventionally used to understand and theorise Indian politics-civil society, nation-state, democracy and citizenship-meaningful in the context of India's historical experience? If not, can it really be said that India's political experience constitutes an alternative model? This paper will argue that the root of the problem can be located in the failure of the systems of representation inherited from the colonialists and the Orientalists to relate meaningfully to the Indian context.
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