Political Biography Of An Earthquake: Aftermath And Amnesia In Gujarat, India

By:

Simpson, Edward

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, [2014].Description: xx, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780199453689

Subject(s):

Gujarat Earthquake, India, 2001 -- Political aspects. Gujarat Earthquake, India, 2001 -- Social aspects. Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- India -- Gujarat. Disaster relief -- Political aspects -- India -- Gujarat. Disaster victims -- Rehabilitation -- India -- Gujarat. Collective memory -- India -- Gujarat. Jordbävningar. Katastrofbistånd -- sociala aspekter. Katastrofbistånd -- politiska aspekter. Kollektivt minne. Indien. Collective memory. Disaster relief -- Political aspects. Disaster relief -- Social aspects. Social aspects. India. India -- Gujarat

DDC classification:

363.34958095475 SIM

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Chai wallahs and the carpetbagger -- 1. Sublime -- 2. Retrospective anatomy -- 3. Aftermath epistemology -- 4. Hyperbolic capitalism -- 5. The carpetbagger -- 6. Notes on 'aftermath' -- Section 2 Earthquake politics -- 7. Regime change -- 8. View from the east -- 9. Borderlands -- 10.(Re)birth of an icon -- Section 3 Villages -- 11. Village 'adoption' -- 12. Service -- 13. Jihadi, dog and secularist -- 14. Building politics -- 15. Integral humanism -- Section 4 The seven crows -- 16. The place of Bhuj -- 17. Where to start? -- 18. Planners -- 19.G numbers -- 20. The unbearable intensity of reduction -- Section 5 The work of mourning -- 21. Nostalgia -- 22. History making -- 23. Rituals of reconstruction -- 24. Umashankar's great escape -- 25. Slow death -- 26. Values of citizenship -- Section 6 Hope -- 27. All is good? -- 28. Explanation -- 29. Inhabitation -- Section 7 Amnesia -- 30. Shocks of colonialism -- 31. Earthquake diaspora -- 32. Nehru's village (twice). Contents note continued: 33. Planning to forget -- 34. Memory.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Prof. Ram Dayal Munda Central Library, IGNTU Amarkantak M.P.	Earth sciences & geology	363.34958095475 SIM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		58810

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Chai wallahs and the carpetbagger --
1. Sublime --
2. Retrospective anatomy --
3. Aftermath epistemology --
4. Hyperbolic capitalism --
5. The carpetbagger --
6. Notes on 'aftermath' --
Section 2 Earthquake politics --
7. Regime change --
8. View from the east --
9. Borderlands --
10.(Re)birth of an icon --
Section 3 Villages --
11. Village 'adoption' --
12. Service --
13. Jihadi, dog and secularist --
14. Building politics --
15. Integral humanism --
Section 4 The seven crows --
16. The place of Bhuj --
17. Where to start? --
18. Planners --
19.G numbers --
20. The unbearable intensity of reduction --
Section 5 The work of mourning --
21. Nostalgia --
22. History making --
23. Rituals of reconstruction --
24. Umashankar's great escape --
25. Slow death --
26. Values of citizenship --
Section 6 Hope --
27. All is good? --
28. Explanation --
29. Inhabitation --
Section 7 Amnesia --
30. Shocks of colonialism --
31. Earthquake diaspora --
32. Nehru's village (twice). Contents note continued: 33. Planning to forget --
34. Memory.

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