Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects

The volumes in this Focus series shall explore quotidian claims made on the modern – understood as idea and image, practice and procedure – as part of everyday articulations of modernity on the Indian sub-continent. Here, the category-entity of the subject refers not only to social actors who have been active participants in historical processes of modernity, but as equally implying branch of learning and area of study, topic and theme, question and matter, and issue and business. Our effort would be to address such modern subjects in a range of distinct yet overlaying ways.
Its titles would address the queries and concepts entailed in earlier explorations of the modern and recent reconsiderations of modernity by focusing on a clutch of common and critical questions. Our bid is not to indolently exorcize aggrandizing representations of modernity as the West, but to prudently track instead the play of such projections in the commonplace unraveling of the modern in India today.