02609nam 22006494a 450 991077799600332120080407035635.01-282-92328-597866129232890-8223-8991-610.1515/9780822389910(CKB)1000000000758156(EBL)1170554(OCoLC)220949928(SSID)ssj0000391624(PQKBManifestationID)12121143(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000391624(PQKBWorkID)10346471(PQKB)10906397(MiAaPQ)EBC1170554(OCoLC)1142925339(MdBmJHUP)muse79654220949928(DE-B1597)553975(DE-B1597)9780822389910(OCoLC)1224278516(EXLCZ)99100000000075815620080407d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond belief[electronic resource] India and the politics of postcolonial nationalism /Srirupa RoyDurham Duke University Press20071 online resource (265 p.)Politics, history, and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-4001-1 0-8223-3984-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index.Introduction : Imagining institutions, instituting diversity : toward a theory of nation-state formation -- Moving pictures : the Films Division of India and the visual practices of the nation-state -- Marching in time : Republic Day parades and the ritual practices of the nation-state -- Indian darkness : science, development, and the needs discourse of the nation-state -- Cities of hope : steel townships and the spatial practices of the nation-state -- Conclusion : after midnight.Examines the formation of the nation-state in postcolonial India, how it worked to create an identity for itself, to what extent it succeeded, and what may be the prospects for unity in a widely diverse country.Politics, history, and culture.NationalismIndiaHistoryNation-stateIndiaPolitics and government1947-NationalismHistory.Nation-state.320.540954Roy Srirupa1488164NcDNcDBOOK9910777996003321Beyond belief3815386UNINA