Making space: towards a spatial history of modernity in caste-societies.
A vibrant public sphere has come to be recognised as a necessary condition of modern democracies. Jürgen Habermas's work has been a convenient point of departure for studies concerned with the concept of the public sphere and modernity, despite evidence mounting from feminist, postcolonial and subal...
| Published in: | Social History Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 315 - 341 |
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