The Vagabond In The South Asian Imagination: Resilience, Agency And Representation

This book presents the conceptual journey of the figure of Vagabond from Pre-modern to post-colonial South Asia. By invoking Foucauldian framework of governmentality, it looks at the criminality and paranoia attached to vagabondage in modern era and what is the line that separates the 'traveller' from the 'vagabond'. It explores themes like pre-history of vagabondage; insurgency centering the vagabond; multiple layers like forced vagabonds, archival-historical vagabonds, re-presented vagabonds, self-professed vagabonds; and techniques of demographic control. The volume argues that vagabond is the very agent of change, the hardcore political dissident who resists authoritarianism, consumerism, capitalism, and statist prohibitions. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, post-colonial studies, history, political philosophy, political studies, sociology and social anthropology.

• | Author: Avishek. Ray
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: July 23, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 172 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367407574
• | ISBN-13: 9780367407575