Beyond Belief - India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism

Informationen zum Autor Srirupa Roy Klappentext "Srirupa Roy offers fresh, innovative, and highly original perspectives on how the Indian nation-state set out to manufacture a national modernity and new ways of presenting itself. This is a much needed contribution to a critical assessment of the now quasi-mythical Nehruvian decades of postcolonial state formation from one of the best political scientists writing on India today."--Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Amsterdam Zusammenfassung Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947! this title explores how nationalists are turned into nationals! the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state! and subjects into citizens. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Imagining Institutions, Instituting Diversity: Toward a Theory of Nation-State Formation 1 1. Moving Pictures: The Films Division of India and the Visual Practices of the Nation-State 32 2. Marching in Time: Republic Day Parades and the Ritual Practices of the Nation-State 66 3. Indian Darkness: Science, Development, and the Needs Discourse of the Nation-State 105 4. Cities of Hope: Steel Townships and the Spatial Practices of the Nation-State 133 Conclusion. After Midnight 157 Notes 171 Bibliography 219 Index 237

Product details

• Authors: Srirupa Roy
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2007
• EAN: 9780822339847
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3984-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education