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Autore: | Roy Srirupa |
Titolo: | Beyond belief [[electronic resource] ] : India and the politics of postcolonial nationalism / / Srirupa Roy |
Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.540954 |
Soggetto topico: | Nationalism - India - History |
Nation-state | |
Soggetto geografico: | India Politics and government 1947- |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond belief |
ISBN: | 1-282-92328-5 |
9786612923289 | |
0-8223-8991-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777996003321 |
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