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050	0	0	_aJQ298.D7 _bK75 2022
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100	1		_aKrishnan, Rajan Kurai, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRule of the commoner : _bDMK and the formations of the political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967 / _cRajan Kurai Krishnan, Ravindran Sriramachandran, V. M. S. Subagunarajan.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aMetamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jun 2022).
505	0		_aIntroduction: Two scenes of departure -- Ideation -- Construction of 'Dravidian-Tamil' people -- The uses of language -- Human immanence -- Left populism -- Imagination -- The play is the thing -- Critical hermeneutics -- Counter-narratives -- Power of fiction -- Mobilization -- The grassroots -- The waves -- The eruption -- The climb.
520			_aThe Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has been singular in heralding and establishing a firm regional polity among the Indian states after the Indian Union was inaugurated as a republic. Academic scholarship has often treated the DMK as a Tamil nationalist or ethno-nationalist formation without conceptual clarity or critical insight. Rule of the Commoner demonstrates with persuasive evidence that the DMK appealed to a federalist and not nationalist imagination. The DMK's combining of the non-Brahmin Dravidian identity and allegiance to Tamil language led to a counter hegemonic formation of the plebes and left populism. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau, the book argues that the DMK achieved the construction of a people as Dravidian-Tamil, with Tamil being the empty signifier of the social whole, Brahmin vs. non-Brahmin divide functioning as the internal frontier leading to the formations of the political. It elaborates the conceptual scheme under the three rubrics of Ideation, Imagination and Mobilization.
610	2	0	_aDravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
650		0	_aPopulism _zIndia _zTamil Nadu _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitical parties _zIndia _zTamil Nadu _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aTamil Nadu (India) _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
700	1		_aSriramachandran, Ravindran, _eauthor.
700	1		_aSubagunarajan, V. M. S. _c(Independent researcher) _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781009197175
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009197168
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