The Imaginary Institution of India : : Politics and Ideas / / Sudipta Kaviraj.
For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scat...
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Kaviraj, Sudipta, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Imaginary Institution of India : Politics and Ideas / Sudipta Kaviraj. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource (312 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. On State, Society, and Discourse in India -- 2. On the Construction of Colonial Power: Structure, Discourse, Hegemony -- 3. On the Structure of Nationalist Discourse -- 4. Writing, Speaking, Being: Language and the Historical Formation of Identities in India -- 5. The Imaginary Institution of India -- 6. A State of Contradictions: The Post-colonial State in India -- 7. Government and Opposition: Fifty Years of Indian Independence -- 8. The Reversal of Orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the Project of Indigenist Social Theory -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad. This collection finally presents his work in one convenient volume and, in doing so, reasserts the brilliance of his approach.As evidenced in these essays, Kaviraj's exceptional strategy positions Indian politics within the political philosophy of the West and alongside the perspectives of Indian history and indigenous political thought. Studies include the peculiar nature of Indian democracy; the specific aspects of Jawaharlal Nehru's and Indira Gandhi's regimes; political culture in independent India; the construction of colonial power; the relationship between state, society, and discourse; the structure of nationalist discourse; language and identity formation in Indian contexts; the link between development and democracy, or democratic functioning; and the interaction among religion, politics, and modernity in South Asia. Each of these essays explores the place of politics in the social life of modern India and is powered by the idea that Indian politics is plastic, reflecting and shaping the world in which people live. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Nationalism India. Political science India Philosophy. Postcolonialism India. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231152235 https://doi.org/10.7312/kavi15222 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231526517 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231526517/original |
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Kaviraj, Sudipta, Kaviraj, Sudipta, The Imaginary Institution of India : Politics and Ideas / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. On State, Society, and Discourse in India -- 2. On the Construction of Colonial Power: Structure, Discourse, Hegemony -- 3. On the Structure of Nationalist Discourse -- 4. Writing, Speaking, Being: Language and the Historical Formation of Identities in India -- 5. The Imaginary Institution of India -- 6. A State of Contradictions: The Post-colonial State in India -- 7. Government and Opposition: Fifty Years of Indian Independence -- 8. The Reversal of Orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the Project of Indigenist Social Theory -- Index |
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