Summary

THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY was established in 1996 by a group of scholars interested in developing new approaches to studying culture in India. This interest has been energised by our sense that the social sciences and humanities disciplines as they exist are no longer adequate to the task of engaging seriously with the problems of our time. Today both the political frameworks of the post-colonial nation-state (democracy, secularism, development) and the institutional structures they endorse (among others, our universities and research entres) are clearly in crisis. Many of the crucial problems confronting us today - relating to questions of gender, caste, comumunity, ethnicity - used to be traditionally relegated to the realm of ‘culture’ rather than being seen as political issues.

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