The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India / / Marguerite Ross Barnett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Barnett, Marguerite Ross,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1845
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)

In this book Processor Barnett analyzes a successful political movement in South India that used cultural nationalism as a positive force for change. By exploring the history of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, the author provides a new perspective on political identity. In so doing, she challenges the interpretation of cultural nationalism as a product of atavistic and primordial forces that poses an inherent threat to the integrity of territorially defined nation-states and thus to the progress of modernization.The founding of the DMK party in 1949, the author shows, was a turning point in the political history of Tamil Nadu, South India, because it ushered in the era of Tamil cultural nationalism. In the hands of the DMK, Tamil nationalism became an ideology of mass mobilization and thus shaped the articulation of political demands for a generation. The author analyzes the social, political, and economic factors that gave rise to cultural nationalism; the interplay between cultural nationalist leaders; and the role of cultural nationalism in a heterogeneous nation-state.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Note on Transliteration -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Map -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- PART ONE. Origins of Tamil Nationalism -- 2. The Justice Party, the Non-Brahmin Movement, and Early Conceptions of Dravidian-ness -- 3. Developing the Politics of Radical Social Reform -- 4. The Dravida Kazhagam, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and Radical Politics in a Changing Political Arena -- PART TWO. The Politics of Emergent Nationalism -- 5. The DMK and Emergent Cultural Nationalism -- 6. Politics of the Loyal Opposition -- PART THREE. Elites, Masses, and Cultural Nationalism -- 7. Tamil Nationalism and the Political Culture of the Tamil Nadu "Common Man" -- 8. DMK Political Leadership: the Men behind Tamil Nationalism -- PART FOUR. Cultural Nationalism and Public Policy -- 9. The DMK in Power: Contradictions of Cultural Nationalism in the Annadurai Era -- 10. The DMK in Power: Contradictions of Cultural Nationalism in the Karunanidhi Era -- 11. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Communal Representation of Gazetted and Non- Gazetted Officers in Province of Madras -- Appendix B. Method for Sampling Party Leaders -- Appendix C. DMK Organization -- Appendix D. Questionnaire for Neighborhood Survey -- Bibliography -- Index