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Retro-modern India High-Profit She was the most travelledFirmly situated within the analytics of the political economy of a north Indian province, this book explores self fashioning in pursuit of the modern amongst low caste Chamars. Challenging existing accounts of national modernity in the non West, the book argues that subaltern classes shape their own ideas about modernity by taking and rejecting from models of other classes within the same national context. While displacing the West in its colonial and