TY - GEN AU - Perera, Sasanka AU - Pathak, Dev Nath AU - Kumar, Ravi TI - Against the nation: thinking like South Asians SN - 9789388630221 U1 - 954 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Bloomsbury Publishing KW - South Asia KW - Civilization KW - Politics and culture N1 - Beginnings: Against the Nation and Thinking Like South Asians -- I. 'Official' Imaginings of South Asia and Its Contradictions -- 1. SAARC Setbacks and Thinking beyond the Boundaries of Its Nation States -- 2. Seeing Like South Asians: Moving beyond Narrow National Frames -- 3. The Idea of South Asia: Beyond the Intellectual Dependence on the Statist Perspective -- 4. Anxieties of SAARC: An Experiential Reading through South Asian University -- 5. South Asia: Between Dream and Actuality II. 'Unofficial' Reimagining of South Asia -- 6. Beyond History, against the Present: Preliminary Thoughts on Reimagining 'South Asia' -- 7. An Emotive-Intellectual Inclination to another South Asia! -- 8. Localising South Asia, Theoretically -- 9. 'South Asia' as an Idea and a Problem of Modernity -- III. Towards a South Asian Knowledge System -- 10. In Defence of 'Area Studies' in South Asia -- 11. Reclaiming Social Sciences and Humanities: Notes from South Asia -- 12. Anthropological South Asia: Thinking through Utopias Amidst Intellectual Hegemonies 13. Universities, Classrooms and Intellectuals: The Struggle to Create a South Asian Knowledge System -- 14. Buddhist Categories, Contemporary World and Sociology: Incomplete Thoughts towards Possibilities of Social Theory and Modes of Thinking in South Asia -- 15. Bringing the Thinking of Jiddu Krishnamurti into Politics -- 16. Thinking of Myth and Folklore in the Twenty-first Century -- IV. South Asia in Popular Politics -- 17. Online South Asia and Its Mediated Politics -- 18. A Melodramatic South Asia: Perusing a Performative-scape 19. In the Frame of the Popular Cinema Despite the Hegemony of Hindi -- 20. The Sound of Silence: Of the Shrinking Public Sphere in South Asia -- 21. Reformulating South Asia: Artists' Travels and Possibilities of a New Cartography -- 22. The Cultural Politics of Hatred in South Asia ER -