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Communal identity in India : its construction and articulation in the twentieth century / edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty.
LIBRA HN683.5 .C589 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--India.
- Group identity.
- Social movements--India.
- Social movements.
- India.
- Movimientos sociales--India.
- Social history.
- India--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- India--Condiciones sociales.
- Local Subjects:
- Movimientos sociales--India.
- India--Condiciones sociales.
- Physical Description:
- x, 327 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- This collection of seminal essays provides a useful and stimulating introduction to the debates surrounding identity-politics in modern India. Through the selected articles, each of which discusses different aspects of the central debate, the volume stresses the need to stay away from an 'essentialist' definition of identity, a view particularly significant in India today; and it concludes that communal identity, though imagined and constructed, is nevertheless not unreal.
- Contents:
- Extracts from The collected works of Mahatma Gandhi / M.K. Gandhi
- Presidential address of M.A. Jinnah, Lahore, March 1940 / M.A Jinnah
- Excerpts from Hindutva / V.D Savarkar
- Fluidity or compartments: Hindus, Muslims and partition / Bidyut Chakrabarty
- Discourses on national identity / Bhikhu Parekh
- Race, caste, and ethnic identity / Andre Breteille
- Ethno-linguistic issues in the Indian federal context / A.R Kamat
- Politics of diversity: religious communities and multiple patriarchies / Kumkum Sangari
- Community formation and communal conflict: Namasudra-Muslim Riotin Jessore-Khulna / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
- Insiders and outsiders in India: primordial collectivism and cultural pluralism in nation-building / T.K Oommen
- Hinduism as Delhi rule: Periyar and the National Question / Gail Omvedt
- Jat Sikhs: a question of identity / Ravinder Kaur
- Fluid Boundaries: Christian communities in India / Rowena Robinson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-313) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Communal identity in India.
- ISBN:
- 0195663306
- 9780195663303
- OCLC:
- 52149737
- Online:
- Publisher description
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