India, a national culture? / edited by Geeti Sen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sen, Geeti.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

Civilization.

India--Civilization--20th century.

India.

Nationalism--India--20th century.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.

Contents:

Visions: scripting the nation

Excerpts from Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Maulana Azad

Memories are made of this ... : Gandhi's retrieval of indigenous culture / Singanapalli Balaram

In pursuit of a different freedom: Tagore's World University at Santiniketan / Uma Das Gupta

Imbibing values at Kalakshetra / Leela Samson

Aligarh Muslim University: recalling radical days / Mushirul Hasan

A memory of coming to life / Krishna Kumar

Voices: affirming plurality: the persistence of Hindustani / Alok Rai

Holding the nation together / Neera Chandhoke

Plural cultures, monolithic structures / Kapila Vatsyayan

Reworlding homes: colonialism, 'national' culture and post-national India / Makarand Paranjape

Poetry as expression of national crisis: a preface and three poems / Rukmini Bhaya Nair photo essay

Theatre of the streets / Ram Rahman

Metaphors of the nation: iconising the nation: political agendas / Geeti Sen

The museum is national / Kavita Singh

Kids, couples and chicks: the nation in calendar art / Patricia Uberoi

Reconstructing the nation in cinema / Rashmi Doraiswamy

Maha Kumbh Mela / Sheba Chhachhi

Vistas: the global cusp

What's so great about Lagaan? / Sudhanva Deshpande

Ethnic cuisine/the significant 'other' / Ashis Nandy

Cricket's social subtext / Bhaskar Roy

Demystifying the nation and nationalism / T.K. Oommen

News watch: is the media responsible? / Antara Dev Sen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0761998314

OCLC:

52334750