Communal Identity in India: Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century (Debates in Indian History) - Softcover

Chakravarty, Bidyut

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195673417 ISBN 13: 9780195673418

Verlag: OUP India, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

A stimulating introduction to identity politics in modern India

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Reseña del editor

The essays in this volume, the third in the Debates in Indian History and Society series, address the contested issue of community identities as they evolved historically in the course of the twentieth century in India.

Reseña del editor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195673417
• ISBN 13: 9780195673418
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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