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Beyond Belief
India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
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Srirupa Roy
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Edited by:
Julia Adams
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English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Srirupa Roy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a coeditor of Violence and Democracy in India.
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“Srirupa Roy offers fresh, innovative, and highly original perspectives on how the Indian nation-state set out to manufacture a national modernity and new ways of presenting itself. This is a much needed contribution to a critical assessment of the now quasi-mythical Nehruvian decades of postcolonial state formation from one of the best political scientists writing on India today.”—Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Amsterdam
“This book marks a departure in the study of Indian nationalism. Srirupa Roy’s idea that nationalism works not as a ‘belief’ but through practices that seek to ground the state deeply in the life of the people, is demonstrated here by archival and ethnographic explorations of specific sites: rituals and pageantry of the state, official newsreels and documentaries, planned scientific institutions and industrial cities. The result is fine-grained political analysis enriched at every turn by the author’s judicious use of history and ethnography.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies
“Srirupa Roy . . . has written an engaging and incisive study of the nation-building project in India. . . . Roy’s book is a welcome and original investigation into the origin and means of the national imagination of India.”
-- Simona Vittorini Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
“Srirupa Roy’s Beyond Belief is a superb contribution to the study of postcolonial nationalism and the complex lives of the postcolonial Indian nation-state. . . . [T]he book is an excellent and invaluable addition to the literature on Indian nationalism and the Indian nation-state as well as an important contribution to theories of nationalism, the state, and nation-state, and postcolonial studies. Lucid and concise, the book is extremely well written. Different methodological and disciplinary perspectives are employed in the text with rigor and carefulness to enrich one another.”
-- Rohit Chopra H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews
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Contents
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Preface and acknowledgments
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Introduction. Imagining Institutions, Instituting Diversity Toward a Theory of Nation-State Formation
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Chapter 1. Moving Pictures The Films Division of India and the Visual Practices of the Nation-State
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Chapter 2. Marching in Time Republic Day Parades and the Ritual Practices of the Nation-State
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Chapter 3. Indian Darkness Science, Development, and the Needs Discourse of the Nation-State
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Chapter 4. Cities of Hope Steel Townships and the Spatial Practices of the Nation-State
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Conclusion After Midnight
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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May 28, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9780822389910
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264
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