Schooling passions : nation, history, and language in contemporary western India / Véronique Benei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bénéï, Véronique.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and education--India.

Nationalism and education.

Citizenship--Study and teaching--India.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--Study and teaching.

India.

Physical Description:

xix, 346 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: sensitive subjects: producing the nation at school in western India

Singing the nation into existence: devotion, patriotism, secularism

Producing "good citizens": languages, bodies, emotions

Producing Mother-India at school: passions of intimacy and national love

Historiography, masculinity, locality: passions of regional belonging

From becoming to being Muslim: Urdu education, affects of belonging, and the Indian nation

Constructing new citizens in military schools: gender, hybridity, and modernity in Maharashtra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330) and index.

ISBN:

9780804759052

0804759057

9780804759069

0804759065

OCLC:

180852053

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