Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity From Artisans in Telangana by Chandan Bose

Author:Chandan Bose
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030125165
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

It is interesting to note that ways of recognizing the self are borrowed not necessarily from larger contexts, but under specific situations to deal with contingencies in everyday life. The trope of naqqash certainly occupies a centrality in the way practitioners describe and historically situate their work; it is this centrality that allows it to also become an easy and accessible insignia to pick up and articulate in order to create not just a self, but also a body that is distinguishable from the other. Chandraiah introduced the word naqqash in his name, not in an attempt to claim a separate political and/or cultural identity based on history, but to facilitate simpler yet important things, such as delivery of letters. Inclusion of naqqash in his name then, for Vaikuntam, is not historically motivated; rather it offers us an instance where history is put in the service of everyday life, in ways people communicate with and address emergent ‘ways of going on’ (Prasad 2007: 24). History then is not the sole influence upon the way people think of themselves; it is only one of the many agents and catalysts that create conditions for describing, delineating and ethnographicizing the self.

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