The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination - 9780367407575

Taylor & Francis

The Vagabond in the South Asian ImaginationResilience, Agency and Representation\nAuthor(s): Avishek Ray\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9780367407575, 978-0367407575\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nIt 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, an.