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is in need of being replaced with an attentiveness to social, cultural, and political location.

to replace 'time-honored commitment to the local . . . with an attentiveness to social, cultural, and political location' (Gupta and Ferguson 1997: 5)

is a riff off of postcolonial studies such that the word 'condition' brings attention to institutions, discourses, and experiences traditionally eluded in 'postcolonial theory'.

My emphasis on the postcolonial condition is intended to draw attention ot a specific conjuncture that has shaped the lives and experiences of people in rural India. Thus, I am interested in the institutions and discourses which position subjects and which configure their experience in particular ways, and not just with a body of theory that may be labeled 'postcolonial.' I use postcolonial theory becuase it enables me to describe and analyze compellingly the condition of subaltern, rural people in India, their agricultural and ecological practices, and their forms of political organization, and not just because I find it a creative and innovative new theory (although that would have be a suffiecient reason for using it. Gupta 1998, ix, 10-11).

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