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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456809703321

Titolo

Locality, history, memory [[electronic resource] ] : the making of the citizen in South Asia / / edited by Rila Mukherjee and M.N. Rajesh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009

ISBN

1-282-03585-1

9786612035852

1-4438-0427-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MukherjeeRila

RajeshM. N

Disciplina

323.60954

Soggetti

Citizenship - South Asia

Nationalism - South Asia

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ABOUT THE SERIES PASTS AND FUTURES; ABOUT THE SERIES EDITORS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART IV; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; PART V; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CONCLUSION

Sommario/riassunto

Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia was born out of the need to interrogate the tropes through which place, history and memory underpin notions of citizenship in present Southasia. Time as both time present and time past is framed here in two settings: as privileging both place (material or ideological site) and space. The latter refers to religion, oppression, marginalization and/or dalitisation. Time transcends both site/location and actual physical boundari...