Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. On State, Society, and Discourse in India 9
5. 2. On the Construction of Colonial Power: Structure, Discourse, Hegemony 39
6. 3. On the Structure of Nationalist Discourse 85
7. 4. Writing, Speaking, Being: Language and the Historical Formation of Identities in India 127
8. 5. The Imaginary Institution of India 167
9. 6. A State of Contradictions: The Post-colonial State in India 210
10. 7. Government and Opposition: Fifty Years of Indian Independence 234
11. 8. The Reversal of Orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the Project of Indigenist Social Theory 254
12. Index 291