Rule of the Commoner: (Record no. 720217)
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fixed length control field | 01578nam a22001457a 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9781009197175 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 324.254 |
Item number | RAJ.R |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
Personal name | Rajan Kurai Krishnan |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Rule of the Commoner: |
Sub Title | DMK and Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949–1967/ |
Statement of responsibility, etc | Rajan Kurai Krishnan; Ravindran Sriramachandran; and V.M.S. Subagunarajan |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | UK: |
Name of publisher | Cambridge university press, |
Year of publication | 2022 |
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
Series statement | Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has been singular in heralding and establishing a firm regional polity among the Indian states after the Indian Union was inaugurated as a republic. Academic scholarship has often treated the DMK as a Tamil nationalist or ethno-nationalist formation without conceptual clarity or critical insight. Rule of the Commoner demonstrates with persuasive evidence that the DMK appealed to a federalist and not nationalist imagination. The DMK's combining of the non-Brahmin Dravidian identity and allegiance to Tamil language led to a counter hegemonic formation of the plebes and left populism. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau, the book argues that the DMK achieved the construction of a people as Dravidian-Tamil, with Tamil being the empty signifier of the social whole, Brahmin vs. non-Brahmin divide functioning as the internal frontier leading to the formations of the political. It elaborates the conceptual scheme under the three rubrics of Ideation, Imagination and Mobilization. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | South Asian government |
Form subdivision | Politics and policy |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type | Book |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home Library | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | Dept. of Political Science | Dept. of Political Science | General Stacks | 01/04/2024 | 324.254 RAJ.R | POL23473 | 04/04/2024 | Book |