Nationalism in India: texts and contexts

by Biswas, Debajyoti Ryan, John, (Poet),, (John Charles)

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Full title :Nationalism in India : texts and contexts / edited by Debajyoti Biswas and John Charles Ryan.

Summary

"This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism. The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and ecological nationalism. It adopts a nation-wide emphasis, including chapters on Northeast India and other regions that have been historically underrepresented in studies of Indian nationalism. Moreover, the volume explores a rich variety of literary works by various writers over the past two centuries that have created, enshrined and contested ideas pivotal to the development of Indian nationalism. Located in a range of disciplines, contributors bring extensive expertise in Indian literature, language and culture to the question of nationalism. The chapters challenge many of the accepted ideas on nationalism and critically examine the politics behind such nationalisms. Moving beyond an approach to Indian nationalism based exclusively in the historicist-political paradigm, this timely book challenges established ideas in Indian nationalism and critically examines the politics of nationalisms in terms of textual representations. The book will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Studies, including Indian culture, history, literature and politics"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 246 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781032015446, 1032015446, 9781032020044, 1032020040
oclc:on1252739689
LC Classification:DS480.45
Dewey Decimal:320.540954

Introduction : interdisciplinary perspectives on Indian nationalism / Debajyoti Biswas -- The founder of Hindu nationalism? : representation of Shivaji in Philip Meadows Taylor's Tara / Ayusman Chakraborty -- Nation-in-translation : interrogating the ethno-cultural discourse of "nation-ness" in Anandamath / Sanjukta Chatterjee -- Proto-nationalist spectacle on nineteenth-century Bengali stage / Sib Sankar Majumder -- From revolt to rustication : Urdu and the Indian national imagination (1857-1947) / Dhurjjati Sarma -- Divided nations, unified sensibilities : tales of the woe of the partition of the Indian subcontinent / Susheel Kumar Sharma -- The question of language in the mothering of a territory : understanding conflicts in embodiment of territories in a multilingual space / Atul Kumar Singh & Prabha Shankar Dwivedi -- Nationalism through the glorification of a precolonial Indian past in the work of Chandamama / Aloysius Sebastian -- Re-examining nationalism and Hindu religious rhetoric in India : a reading of Arundhati Roy's The ministry of utmost happiness / Anjan Saikia -- Unacceptable citizens : queer communities and homonationalism in India / Himadri Roy -- The 'queer nat…

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc India Indic literature Indic literature -- History and critici… Littérature de l'Inde -- Histoire et cr… Nationalism Nationalism -- India Nationalism in literature Nationalisme dans la littérature