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Javed Wani

Bio: Javed Wani is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Postcolonialism. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 22 citations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the rhetoric of English India has been studied in the context of the history of European ideas, and the rhetoric has been analyzed in terms of English-to-Indians.

176 citations

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TL;DR: It is through remarkable yet quotidian episodes that Ben Kafka develops his book on the demon of writing and through the historical characters, he illustrates the topics to address about the essential role paperwork took in society and why, after all, it would still be to blame for the problems of the State.
Abstract: It is through remarkable yet quotidian episodes that Ben Kafka develops his book on the demon of writing. Referring to the reproduction of paperwork as such, Kafka goes back to the start of the French Revolution, where bureaucracy was applied as the tool for the representative government, the new kind of political system that the revolution introduced in the end of the XVIII century in Europe. Kafka, hence, leans on those episodes and through the historical characters, he illustrates the topics to address about the essential role paperwork took in society and why, after all, it would still be to blame for the problems of the State. Edme-Etienne Morizot is the fi rst important character in the book, and he is the one that represents the revolution of paperwork that the episode of 1789 brought to France. As he was fi red from his job in the Ministry of Finance, a year before the revolution, the real reasons for his dismissal were yet legitimate for the time: he was replaced by the son-in-law of the king’s aunt’s chambermaid. Unsatisfi ed with his circumstances, the following years for Morizot were marked by his claims to get his job back, or at least a fi nancial compensation, but the French Revolution had transformed the whole offi cial sphere: Morizot, trying to fi nd someone to help him, could only fi nd paperwork and processes in a depersonalized system that “gave a damn to his problem”, as Kafka points out. The representativeness the revolution sought to settle in France came with bureaucracy, and accountability was the key word. Making a contrast to

51 citations

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Sujay Ghosh1
TL;DR: The development and growth of citizenship in industrialized societies, especially Britain, has been, for several decades, considered a "Citizenship and Social Class" as discussed by the authors, where the authors chronicled the development of citizenship and social class.
Abstract: Marshall's “Citizenship and Social Class”, where he chronicled the development and growth of citizenship in industrialized societies, especially Britain, has been, for several decades, considered a...

49 citations