What is a Public? Notes from South Asia

Scott, J. Barton; Ingram, Brannon D.

doi:10.1080/00856401.2015.1052896

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“…The widespread criticism of this prescriptive model for its lack of empirical significance was taken up in Habermas's later proposal of the 'post-secular', which, however, fails to fully transcend the normative and liberal binaries inherent in his theory (see Casanova 2013;Cooke 2010). For South Asia, even more than elsewhere, it has been argued that many publics are structured both religiously and, more specifically, communally, for a number of historical and structural reasons, many of which are rooted in colonial policy (Embree 2002;Scott and Ingram 2015). They range from the partial intersection of language or print communities with religious affiliation 12 to legal pluralism and the significance of contested religious nationalisms that are partially a legacy of the divide-and-rule policy, including the two-state solution of the British colonial government.…”

Section: Secular Publics As Mediated Through Culturementioning

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Global Sceptical Publics

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Performing the secular: street theatre and songs as 'secular media' in Bangladesh and West Bengal 71 James Bradbury and Mascha Schulz 3 'There is no god, Summer': a critical evaluation of Rick and Morty's approach to atheism and nihilism 97 Frank Bosman 4 Aesthetics of the secular 127 Stefan Binder 5 Gender, affect and atheism in Arabic media 144 Natalie Khazaal Part II Mediated scepticism: historical and contemporary trajectories 6 'Apostates': a new secularising public in the United Kingdom John Hagström 7 Satan, sex and an Islamist zombie apocalypse: religion-sceptical publicity and blasphemy in Turkish cartoons and comic books Pierre Hecker 8 From campaign and dispute to 'public service broad/ narrowcasting': secularist and atheist media strategies in Britain and America -a contextual history

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“…To answer questions about the changing nature of publics or privates requires us to recognize the polysemic nature of these terms and the multiple dimensions along which the distinction can be asserted. The interest in publics among South Asianist historians, inaugurated by the Habermasian debate, in fact concerns only one very particular kind of public, the public sphere, and it is this that the scholarship has focused on (Habermas 1991; Calhoun 1993; Scott, Ingram, and Tareen 2016). Understanding the governance of Dalits in the nineteenth century, however, requires us to examine several linked but distinct kinds of publicness.…”

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A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern Indiaand the Study of Caste

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Ramberg³

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Mod. Asian Stud.

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In this roundtable discussion, five scholars of modern India with diverse methodological training examine aspects of Rupa Viswanath's 2014 book, The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India, and assess its arguments and contributions. This book has made strong challenges to the scholarly consensus on the nature of caste in India, arguing that, in the Madras presidency under the British, caste functioned as a form of labour control of the lowest orders and, in this roundtable, she calls colonial Madras a ‘slave society’. The scholars included here examine that contention and the major subsidiary arguments on which it is based. Uday Chandra identifies The Pariah Problem with a new social history of caste and Dalitness. Brian K. Pennington links the ‘religionization’ of caste that Viswanath identifies to the contemporary Hindu right's concerns for religious sentiment and authenticity. Lucinda Ramberg takes up Viswanath's account of the constitution of a public that excluded the Dalit to inquire further about the gendered nature of that public and the private realm it simultaneously generated. Zoe Sherinian calls attention to Viswanath's characterization of missionary opposition to social equality for Dalits and examines missionary and Dalit discourses that stand apart from those that Viswanath studied. Joel Lee extends some of Viswanath's claims about the Madras presidency by showing strong parallels to social practices in colonial North India. Finally, Viswanath's own response addresses the assessments of her colleagues.

What is a Public? Notes from South Asia

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A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern Indiaand the Study of Caste

Fashioning the Self: Women and Transnational Print Networks in Colonial Punjab

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