"Srirupa Roy offers fresh, innovative, and highly original perspectives on how the Indian nation-state set out to manufacture a national modernity and new ways of presenting itself. This is a much needed contribution to a critical assessment of the now quasi-mythical Nehruvian decades of postcolonial state formation from one of the best political scientists writing on India today."--Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Amsterdam
"Srirupa Roy offers fresh, innovative, and highly original perspectives on how the Indian nation-state set out to manufacture a national modernity and new ways of presenting itself. This is a much needed contribution to a critical assessment of the now quasi-mythical Nehruvian decades of postcolonial state formation from one of the best political scientists writing on India today."--Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Amsterdam
Srirupa Roy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a coeditor of Violence and Democracy in India.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Imagining Institutions, Instituting Diversity: Toward a Theory of Nation-State Formation 1 1. Moving Pictures: The Films Division of India and the Visual Practices of the Nation-State 32 2. Marching in Time: Republic Day Parades and the Ritual Practices of the Nation-State 66 3. Indian Darkness: Science, Development, and the Needs Discourse of the Nation-State 105 4. Cities of Hope: Steel Townships and the Spatial Practices of the Nation-State 133 Conclusion. After Midnight 157 Notes 171 Bibliography 219 Index 237
Preface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Imagining Institutions, Instituting Diversity: Toward a Theory of Nation-State Formation 1 1. Moving Pictures: The Films Division of India and the Visual Practices of the Nation-State 32 2. Marching in Time: Republic Day Parades and the Ritual Practices of the Nation-State 66 3. Indian Darkness: Science, Development, and the Needs Discourse of the Nation-State 105 4. Cities of Hope: Steel Townships and the Spatial Practices of the Nation-State 133 Conclusion. After Midnight 157 Notes 171 Bibliography 219 Index 237
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