India's Imperial Formations - Cultural Perspectives

India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together.

List of contents

Introduction: India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 1: The Cultural Industries of India: Imperial & Critical Contexts
Chapter 2: Imperial Cinematic Imaginations: Bollywood's Race Problem
Chapter 3: "We Love America": Imperial Indian Diaspora on Television
Chapter 4: Metanarratives of Nation: Race, Caste and Religion

About the author

Amrita Ghosh, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Bhakti Shringarpure

Summary

India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together.

Product details

• Authors: Rohit Dasgupta, Rohit K Dasgupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Amrita Ghosh, Bhakti Shringarpure
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781683932994
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-299-4
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Illustrations: 13 BW Photos
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories