Nomadism of colour: Painting, technology and waste in the chromo-zones of colonial India c.1765–c.1860

Eaton, Natasha

doi:10.1177/1359183511432988

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“…Tetapi ini bukan gejala abad 21 saja. Sejak 1765 teknologi sudah digunakan dalam aktifitas sufisme (Eaton, 2012).…”

Section: Ilmu Sosial Digital Dan Keberagamaanunclassified

Menelusuri Sufi Digital

Wekke¹

2019

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ABSTRAKPerangkat digital menyentuh semua aspek kehidupan. Terdapat peluang untuk melakukan konvergensi aktifitas kehidupan dengan gawai yang tersedia sebagai sebuah bagian utama kehidupan. Termasuk dalam kehidupan keberagamaan. Terjadi dinamisasi kehidupan yang berubah akibat pola penggunaan gawai. Salah satu aspeknya adalah sufisme yang menjadi aktifitas beragama. Hanya saja, untuk menghindari kerancuan dalam memberi istilah maka perlu penelaahan dan pengayaan data untuk kemudian menamankan aktifitas tersebut sebagai sufi digital. Sebagaimana istilah yang sudah berterima seperti perpustakaan digital, pembelajaran digital, ekonomi digital, dll.Kata kunci: sufi digital, keberagamaan, perangkat teknologi PendahuluanCorbin (2012) menjelaskan bahwa Ibnu Arabi sebagai salah satu penggagas sufisme.Kemudian Ernst (2017) menambahkan bahwa sufisme sesungguhnya walau belum disebut di

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“…Tetapi ini bukan gejala abad 21 saja. Sejak 1765 teknologi sudah digunakan dalam aktifitas sufisme (Eaton, 2012).…”

Section: Ilmu Sosial Digital Dan Keberagamaanunclassified

Menelusuri Sufi Digital

Wekke¹

2019

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“…These medieval poetic deployments of rang and the yearning for rangrez gave birth to a whole genre of poetry often referred as rang shayari, rang rekhta, etc. These references take us to a direction of what Natasha Eaton refers to as ‘Sufi aesthetic of shimmer’ and an ‘ontology of Sufism’ (Eaton, 2012, p. 63 and p. 61, respectively).…”

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From Rangdāri Tax to Rangrezi: Chromatic Landscape of the Post-colonial

Jha

2019

Journal of Human Values

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Rangrez and Rangdār are two commonly used words in north India. ‘Rangrez’ is a painter/dyer, and in Sufi tradition is also a word for Allah. ‘Rangdāri’ is an illegal extortion tax, and the person who collects this tax is called the ‘Rangdār’. In all likelihood, ‘Rangdāri tax’ originates from the geo-political landscape of coal and mining regions of India (in districts which are now in the state of Jharkhand). The term is closely linked with the rise of mafia/gangsters in the region for usurping coal contracts and for effective/extra-legal management of coal workers from the mid-1940s and in the 1950s. The figure who collects this tax is called ‘Rangdār’. Both terms Rangrez and Rangd a-ri centre upon ‘rang’, which largely means colour across the South Asian milieu. Engaging with different terrains occupied by these terms, this article ventures into a less traversed domain of colours in the South Asian context. It uses this occasion to disentangle some of the knots present in the dark abyss of post-colonial political practices while looking back to the roots of the word ‘rang’ (colour). While tracking the historically changing meanings of the word ‘rang’, the article stumbles upon Sufi tradition and argues that this tradition has decisively structured the association of ‘rang’ with colour in South Asian context. Creatively mobilizing the darkness embedded in the word ‘Rangdāri’ tax, I extend my analytical frame to a larger question of addressing hierarchies which go into the making up of the post-colonial chromatic landscape. It is at this level, the figure of the ‘Rangrez’, shrouded in Sufi mystery, appears laden with a number of possibilities and creative tensions.

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“…On the contrary, they have been carefully developed in order to maximize their emotive significance and their ability to enrol students into this would‐be subculture. In particular, the Jack Wills colour‐scheme is explicitly drawn from elite culture and specifically from public schools; they are drawn from a palate of tones which their student target group will recognize and for whom these colours are already deeply meaningful (Taussig ; Young ; Eaton ).…”

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The Jack Wills crowd: towards a sociology of an elite subculture

King

Smith

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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British sociologists have long been interested in youth sub-cultures. However British sociologists have tended to focus on working class subcultures and avoided engagement with exclusive sub-cultures of elite social groups. This article seeks to attend to this gap by examining the subculture of a British elite: ex-public school students at select universities in the UK in the twenty-first century. This group consists of a relatively small group of young adults, aged between 18 and 23, who attended public schools, especially one of the nine Clarendon schools (Eton, Winchester, Westminster, St. Paul's, Merchant Taylor's, Shrewsbury, Rugby, Harrow and Charterhouse), and were students at a selective group of British universities, primarily Oxford and Cambridge, Durham, Bristol, Exeter, Bath, Manchester, St Andrews and Edinburgh. The article examines the way in which this group has reconfigured and re-constituted itself in the face of globalizing challenges. Specifically, it examines the way in which participation of ex-public school students in events run by and under the patronage of the high street retailing company, Jack Wills, has played a galvanising role for this group in the last decade. The Jack Wills crowd is an example of how some young adults form exclusive social networks and reproduce prevailing forms of privilege. The social networks built around the Jack Wills subculture is likely to provide them with advantages in the job market through a prodigious network of connections and patrons. The Jack Wills subculture potentially contributions to the socio-economic reproduction of the higher professional middle classes.

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Nomadism of colour: Painting, technology and waste in the chromo-zones of colonial India c.1765–c.1860

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

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From Rangdāri Tax to Rangrezi: Chromatic Landscape of the Post-colonial

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