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Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond
Susan Bayly
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paperback. A study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories in Vietnam and India. Num Pages: 294 pages, 30 b/w illus. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FMV; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 262 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
This study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories is based on anthropological and historical research in Vietnam and India, two great Asian societies with contrasting experiences of empire, decolonisation and the rise and fall of the twentieth-century socialist world system. Building on the author's long-standing research experience in India and on remarkable family narratives collected during fieldwork in northern Vietnam, the book deals with epic events and complex social transformations from a perspective that emphasizes the personal and the familial. Its central theme is the extraordinary mobility of intelligentsia lives. The author explores the role of the intellectual in ... Read more
This study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories is based on anthropological and historical research in Vietnam and India, two great Asian societies with contrasting experiences of empire, decolonisation and the rise and fall of the twentieth-century socialist world system. Building on the author's long-standing research experience in India and on remarkable family narratives collected during fieldwork in northern Vietnam, the book deals with epic events and complex social transformations from a perspective that emphasizes the personal and the familial. Its central theme is the extraordinary mobility of intelligentsia lives. The author explores the role of the intellectual in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521688949
SKU
V9780521688949
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About Susan Bayly
Susan Bayly is Reader in Historical Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Her previous publications include Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age (1999) and Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 1700-1900 (1989).
Reviews for Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond
'Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age is an engaging and original work of interest to scholars of both South and Southeast Asia. Bayly's comparison of Indian and Hanoi intellectuals is novel and useful. It allows her to underline the active and extremely complex relationship that a liminal generation of Asian intellectuals had to its colonial and post-colonial pasts. It also ... Read more