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Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond

Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond

Bayly, Susan

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General World HistoryIndian & South Asian HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0521688949
ISBN13: 9780521688949
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 18 2007
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.22 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
This study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories is based on anthropological and historical research in Vietnam and India, two great Asian societies with contrasting experiences of empire, decolonisation and the rise and fall of the twentieth-century socialist world system. Building on the author's long-standing research experience in India and on remarkable family narratives collected during fieldwork in northern Vietnam, the book deals with epic events and complex social transformations from a perspective that emphasizes the personal and the familial. Its central theme is the extraordinary mobility of intelligentsia lives. The author explores the role of the intellectual in the economic, social and cultural transformation of the post-colonial world through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork methods. In identifying parallels and contrasts between Hanoi's 'socialist moderns' and the family and career experiences of their Indian counterparts, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the study of colonial, socialist and post-socialist Asia.

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