Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination

List of Figures and Illustrations. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction Part I: The Rupture(s) in the Non-West 2. Sacralizing the Vagabond: The Pre-History 3. Colonial Bengal and the Case of Mimicry 4. Insurgent Vagabond: The Postcolonial Turn Part II: Imag(in)ing the Vagabond: Virulent Mobility in Post-Colonial Times 5. Demographics and Territoriality 6. Picturing the Vagrant: Resurrecting from the Abyss of Proscription 7. Itinerancy as a Critique of Development Part III: Literarizing the Vagabond: Towards a Radical Theory of Wandering 8. The Politics of Orientalism and Pitfalls of Scripto-centricism 9. The Chimeral Face of History: Buddhist Subversion Reconsidered 10. Postcolonial Literature: The Return of the Repressed 11. Epilogue Index.

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itinerant communities;colonial historiography;governmentality studies;postcolonial mobility;cultural marginality;migration sociology;politics of itinerancy in South Asia