South Asian Governmentalities. Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings

Machine Generated Contents Note: Introductions -- 1. Introducing South Asian Governmentalities / Stephen Legg -- 2. Governmentality In The East / Partha Chatterjee -- Histories And Presents -- 3. Pastoral Care, The Reconstitution Of Pastoral Power And The Creation Of Disobedient Subjects Under Colonialism / Indrani Chatterjee -- 4. The Abiding Binary: The Social And The Political In Modern India / Prathama Banerjee -- 5. Colonial And Nationalist Truth Regimes: Empire, Europe And The Latter Foucault / Stephen Legg -- 6. Law As Economy/economy As Governmentality: Convention, Corporation, Currency / Ritu Birla -- Subjects And Matters -- 7. Do Elephants Have Souls? Animal Subjectivities And Colonial Encounters / Jonathan Saha -- 8. Plastic History, Caste And The Government Of Things In Modern India / Sarah Hodges -- 9. Changing The Subject: From Feminist Governmentality To Technologies Of The (feminist) Self / Srila Roy Note Continued: 10. The Tortured Body: The Irrevocable Tension Between Sovereign And Biopower In Colonial Indian Technologies Of Rule / Deana Heath -- Reflection -- 11. The Subject In Question / Gerry Kearns. Edited By Stephen Legg, Deana Heath. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available In Electronic Format.