A crucial political question for a new sociology of India is whether it can create a new identity for itself between the local and the global, where it can simultaneously deal with objects that span different spaces and times without losing its own location in space and time. The problematic is that of the new meanings that concepts acquire when they travel across space and time. The question then becomes one of the political significance of the new meanings in their acquired habitat. This article explores these questions through the reading of a Bengali language text.
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