Constructing Post-Colonial India - National Character and the Doon School

Zusatztext 'Going far beyond the "sociology of education" framework! the study marks a noteworthy intervention in the academic debate on India's tryst with modernity ... an important contribution.' - The Australian Journal of Anthropology Informationen zum Autor Sanjay Srivastava trained as a social anthropologist and is presently senior lecturer in the School of Literary and Communication Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Klappentext An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the seductions of capital 1 Practical minds, solid builders, and sane opinions 2 The marble mirage: constructing the Orient 3 The garden of rational delights 4 Secularism, the citizen, and Hindu contextualism 5 The management of water: capitalism, class, and science 6 The order of men: sentiments of the metropolis, settlements of civil society 7 Conclusion: ‘post-coloniality’, national identity, globalisation, and the simulacra of the real

Product details

• Authors: S. Srivastava, Sanjay Srivastava
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780415178556
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17855-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Culture and Communication in A; Culture and Communication in A; Culture and Communication in Asia
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Indien, Kulturwissenschaften, Schulen und Vorschulen, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus