Nationalism in India : texts and contexts / edited by Debajyoti Biswas and John Charles Ryan.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
  • ©2022
Description
xii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

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Series
Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 144. [More in this series]
Summary note
"This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism. The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and ecological nationalism. It adopts a nation-wide emphasis, including chapters on Northeast India and other regions that have been historically underrepresented in studies of Indian nationalism. Moreover, the volume explores a rich variety of literary works by various writers over the past two centuries that have created, enshrined and contested ideas pivotal to the development of Indian nationalism. Located in a range of disciplines, contributors bring extensive expertise in Indian literature, language and culture to the question of nationalism. The chapters challenge many of the accepted ideas on nationalism and critically examine the politics behind such nationalisms. Moving beyond an approach to Indian nationalism based exclusively in the historicist-political paradigm, this timely book challenges established ideas in Indian nationalism and critically examines the politics of nationalisms in terms of textual representations. The book will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Studies, including Indian culture, history, literature and politics"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction : interdisciplinary perspectives on Indian nationalism / Debajyoti Biswas
  • The founder of Hindu nationalism? : representation of Shivaji in Philip Meadows Taylor's Tara / Ayusman Chakraborty
  • Nation-in-translation : interrogating the ethno-cultural discourse of "nation-ness" in Anandamath / Sanjukta Chatterjee
  • Proto-nationalist spectacle on nineteenth-century Bengali stage / Sib Sankar Majumder
  • From revolt to rustication : Urdu and the Indian national imagination (1857-1947) / Dhurjjati Sarma
  • Divided nations, unified sensibilities : tales of the woe of the partition of the Indian subcontinent / Susheel Kumar Sharma
  • The question of language in the mothering of a territory : understanding conflicts in embodiment of territories in a multilingual space / Atul Kumar Singh & Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
  • Nationalism through the glorification of a precolonial Indian past in the work of Chandamama / Aloysius Sebastian
  • Re-examining nationalism and Hindu religious rhetoric in India : a reading of Arundhati Roy's The ministry of utmost happiness / Anjan Saikia
  • Unacceptable citizens : queer communities and homonationalism in India / Himadri Roy
  • The 'queer nation' : moving beyond boundaries? : a study of select South Asian novels / Pratusha Bhowmik
  • Expression of ecological nationalism in the lyrical narratives of Bhupen Hazarika / Pankaj Jyoti Gogoi
  • "This is our homeland. Out with foreign infiltrators" : a study of geography, nationalism and ethnicity in Mitra Phukan's The collector's wife / Anindya Sundar Paul
  • Reconfiguring Indian nationalism / Debajyoti Biswas.
ISBN
  • 9781032015446 (hardback)
  • 1032015446 (hardback)
  • 9781032020044 (paperback)
  • 1032020040 (paperback)
LCCN
2021015602
OCLC
1252739689
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