Debating the 'Post' Condition in India by Makarand R. Paranjape - 9780367345457

Debating the 'Post' Condition in IndiaCritical Vernaculars, Unauthorized Modernities, Post-Colonial Contentions\nAuthor(s): Makarand R. Paranjape\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9780367345457, 978-0367345457\nSynopsis\nHow was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent Indias engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and post. The book explores the discursive trajectories of post-modernism, post-colonialism, post-Marxism, post-nationalism, post-feminism, post-secularism the relations that mediate them as well as interprets, in the light of these discussions, core tenets of Indian philosophical thought. Paranjape argues that Indias response to the modernist project is neither submission, willing or reluctant, nor repudiation, intenti.