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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451043903321

Autore

Mondal Anshuman A (Anshuman Ahmed), <1972-, >

Titolo

Nationalism and post-colonial identity : culture and ideology in India and Egypt / / Anshuman A. Mondal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-02441-0

1-134-49417-3

0-203-49898-4

0-415-60015-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Disciplina

320.54/0954

Soggetti

Nationalism - India

Nationalism - Egypt

Electronic books.

India Politics and government

India Civilization

Egypt Politics and government

Egypt Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Nationalism as cultural politics; The prehistory of Gandhian nationalism; A tragedy of idealism: utopianism and the imagined community of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj; The making and unmaking of Gandhian ideology: Raja Rao's Kanthapura; An anatomy of Egyptian secular-liberal nationalism; Tawfiq al-Hakim and the dark side of Egyptian secular-liberal nationalist discourse; Naguib Mahfouz, national allegory and neopatriarchy: the Cairo Trilogy; Reflections on nationalism, culture and ideology in India and Egypt; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political



problems such as the rise of radical Islam, communalism, and the failure of secular-liberal democracy? This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical framework for studying nati