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The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Resilience, Agency and Representation

The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Resilience, Agency and Representation

Ray, Avishek

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1032040319
ISBN13: 9781032040318
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Sep 25 2023
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct 'vagabond' and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia.

It describes the fraught relationship between 'native' itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and taxonomies of mobility. The book demonstrates the historical seismic breaks - from the Orientalist to the post-Orientalist, from the premodern to the modern, and from the colonial to the post-colonial - in the representation of the vagabond in the juridico-political imagination, in historiography and cultural articulation. For instance, the drunk European sailor, the quasi-religious mendicant, and the helpless famine refugee have all been referred to as 'vagabonds' in the colonial archive. This book examines the histories and conditions behind these conceptual overlaps, as well as the uncanny associations among categories that uneasily coexist and mirror each other as subsets of a vast range of phenomena, which may loosely be called 'vagabond(age)'.

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