Communal Identity In India - Its Construction And Articulation In The Twentieth Century

This collection of seminal essays provides a useful and stimulating introduction to the debates surrounding identity politics in modern India. Through the selected articles, each of which discusses different aspects of the central debate, the volume stresses the need to stay away from an 'essentialist' definition of identity, a view particularly significant in India today; and it concludes that communal identity, though imagined and constructed, is nevertheless not unreal.

Summary

The essays in this volume, the third in the Debates in Indian History and Society series, address the contested issue of community identities as they evolved historically in the course of the twentieth century in India.

Product details

• Authors: Bidyut (EDT) Chakrabarty, Bidyut Chakravarty, Bidyut (Professor Chakravarty
• Assisted by: Bidyut Chakrabarty (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2005
• EAN: 9780195673418
• ISBN: 978-0-19-567341-8
• No. of pages: 327
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Debates in Indian History; Oxford India Collection (Paper; Oxford India Collection (Paper; Debates in Indian History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories