Writing Off: Approaching Modernity through Social Change

Komal Prasad Phuyal
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As rupture in the prevailing practices, modernity adopts writing off as one of its diverse ways of bringing the ethos of contemporary time to match up with the aspirations of people. The inner core of the society develops erroneous aspects in its structural foundations over a course of time, whereby promoting social inequalities. Often, the proponents of such system fail to see through the possible implications of such fault line during the inceptions. The fissures in system set onto trouble the people, thereby obstructing the smooth functioning of the society. In such context, the society calls for the intervention of the larger agency, capable of enforcing and sustaining change. The present study examines and analyse slavery as the system that has undergone such change in the history of Nepal. I have taken Chandra Shumsher’s 1924 speech on abolition of slavery and Madan Mani Dixit’s Madhavi (1983) as the primary source of data to explore examine and analyse slavery from the intersection of history and literature in that both Shumsher and Dixit reflection the nature and course of slavery as such. Using the critical perspective of new historicism, the study concludes that modernity employs ‘writing off’ as one of the chief strategies to upgrade the polity with the ethos of contemporaneity.
注销:通过社会变革接近现代性
作为对主流实践的断裂,现代性将勾销作为其将当代精神与人们的愿望相匹配的多种方式之一。随着时间的推移,社会的内部核心在其结构基础上发展出错误的方面,从而促进了社会不平等。通常,这种系统的支持者在启动过程中无法看穿这种断层线的可能含义。制度上的裂痕给人们带来了困扰,从而阻碍了社会的顺利运行。在这种情况下,社会需要有能力实施和维持变革的更大机构的干预。本研究考察和分析了在尼泊尔历史上经历了如此变化的奴隶制制度。我把钱德拉·舒姆舍尔1924年关于废除奴隶制的演讲和马丹·马尼·迪克西特的《Madhavi》(1983)作为主要的数据来源,从历史和文学的交叉点来探索、检查和分析奴隶制,因为舒姆舍尔和迪克西特都反映了奴隶制的本质和过程。本研究运用新历史主义的批判视角,认为现代性将“勾销”作为以当代性精神升级政体的主要策略之一。
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