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The goddess and the nation : mapping Mother India / Sumathi Ramaswamy.
Loaned to Another Library DS430 .R363 2010
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramaswamy, Sumathi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--Political aspects--India.
- Group identity.
- Postcolonialism--India.
- Postcolonialism.
- Mother goddesses--India.
- Mother goddesses.
- Symbolic anthropology--India.
- Symbolic anthropology.
- Group identity--Political aspects.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 379 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Prologue : yearning for form
- Formal concerns
- Other women, other mothers
- Vande mataram
- Enshrining the map of India
- Between men, map, and mother
- Daughters of India
- Epilogue : pictorial history in the age of the world picture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822345923
- 0822345927
- 9780822346104
- 0822346109
- OCLC:
- 459210720
- Publisher Number:
- 99937532153
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