P. Thirumal

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The Making of the Region: Perspectives from a Non-Savarna Newspaper (Part II)

by rti_adminon November 28, 2016March 20, 20230

P. Thirumal Continued from Part I Disciplinary axis From a certain disciplinary and a temporal axis, region has been studied as an objective entity in the form of center-state relations.[43] Presently, the behaviorist-functionalist paradigm referred to as institutional approach seems to be giving way to a more nuanced cultural studies paradigm.[44] A certain dominant …

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The Making of the Region: Perspectives from a Non-Savarna Newspaper (Part I)

by rti_adminon November 24, 2016March 20, 20230

P. Thirumal Abstract This intervention concerns itself with elaborating the administrative category ‘region’. The federal units qualify as administrative regions of the Indian Union. This paper argues that in the initial decades after independence, region(s) tend to be reproduced and affirmed largely through region-state(s) or Indian State practices. Though the …