Rule of the Commoner: (Record no. 720217)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781009197175
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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.
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Topical Term South Asian government
Form subdivision Politics and policy
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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