Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:

Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:

The novel in question here is not based on any kind of survey, but on the experience of two Dalits during the state of emergency. By imagining their life experience, it does, however, probe certain aspects of this period which Indian studies failed to address until very recently. Considering that li...

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Main Author: Jaoul, Nicolas
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Terrain 2025
Subjects:
caste
fascism
emancipation
alternative writing
Indian studies
literary realism
Rohinton Mistry
Dalits
state of emergency
state violence.
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:terrain_27621 https://doi.org/10.4000/1437n urn:doi:10.4000/1437n en https://journals.openedition.org/terrain/27621 2025-06-11T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/1437n https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance: Terrain Association Terrain info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1777-5450 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0760-5668 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/terrain Jaoul, Nicolas caste fascism emancipation alternative writing Indian studies literary realism Rohinton Mistry Dalits state of emergency state violence. The novel in question here is not based on any kind of survey, but on the experience of two Dalits during the state of emergency. By imagining their life experience, it does, however, probe certain aspects of this period which Indian studies failed to address until very recently. Considering that literary and scientific writing are increasingly bound to intersect and influence each other, it is useful to consider all the implications of this permeability, thus raising questions about the boundaries of the social sciences and the challenges of opening up to extra-disciplinarity. This novel, where pessimistic miserabilism rubs shoulders with moments of grace that are at the same time hopeful, redemptive, and fragile, offers food for thought for political anthropology, as an attempt to think about emancipation as a constitutive dimension of lived reality.
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topic caste
fascism
emancipation
alternative writing
Indian studies
literary realism
Rohinton Mistry
Dalits
state of emergency
state violence.
spellingShingle caste
fascism
emancipation
alternative writing
Indian studies
literary realism
Rohinton Mistry
Dalits
state of emergency
state violence.
Jaoul, Nicolas
Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:
description The novel in question here is not based on any kind of survey, but on the experience of two Dalits during the state of emergency. By imagining their life experience, it does, however, probe certain aspects of this period which Indian studies failed to address until very recently. Considering that literary and scientific writing are increasingly bound to intersect and influence each other, it is useful to consider all the implications of this permeability, thus raising questions about the boundaries of the social sciences and the challenges of opening up to extra-disciplinarity. This novel, where pessimistic miserabilism rubs shoulders with moments of grace that are at the same time hopeful, redemptive, and fragile, offers food for thought for political anthropology, as an attempt to think about emancipation as a constitutive dimension of lived reality.
author Jaoul, Nicolas
author_facet Jaoul, Nicolas
author_sort Jaoul, Nicolas
title Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:
title_short Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:
title_full Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:
title_fullStr Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:
title_full_unstemmed Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance:
title_sort rethinking contemporary india with rohinton mistry’s a fine balance:
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