Politics in Emotion: The Song of Telangana

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The work focuses on a subaltern local sovereignty movement called "Telangana" in India. Over the last ten years, this movement has engaged in a massive political mobilization, including strikes, rallies, work stoppages, occupation of public spaces, electoral contests, 200 and more political suicides and media battles. But, interestingly enough, notwithstanding a political mobilization that has brought day-to-day life to a halt on a number of occasions, it has remained largely invisible in international media and global politics. Fascinated by the social movement’s international invisibility as well as the causes and conditions of its eruption around a city/region that has become a showcase of new capitalist development, Muppidi seeks to unpack this issue, showing that this invisibility is not just intrinsically puzzling, but also represents the operation of power on a global scale. Investigating the conditions of invisibility in this instance can therefore tell us something important about the way global power works to produce visibility and invisibility in the 21st century world. This book provides a unique resource for students of Postcolonalism, International relations and South East Asian studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction 1. Postcolonial auditions Tuning in Songs in motion Encounters Forging a form Political economy as a cultural encounter Savage Telangana Poetic form Notes 2. Colonial concerts Paradise lost Paradise gained Schoolmasters of empire Postcolonial resonance Failing to forge Gujarat 2002. February, March, April. Regional chants Notes 3. Sentimental economies The spirit of Telugus past Managing reason Mal-development Spiriting away Hyderabad Telangana sentiment, Andhra enterprise Sentimental capital Unhealthy thoughts and untimely spirits Notes 4. Sibilant hills Sejulu Vernacularity Cosmopolitanisms Notes 5. Global forgings Wordly motion The provincial and the postcolonial Notes Bibliography Index