The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas /
Kaviraj, Sudipta.
New York : Columbia University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On state, society, and discourse in India -- On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony -- On the structure of nationalist discourse -- Writing, speaking, being: language and the historical formation of identities in India -- The imaginary institution of India -- A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India -- Government and opposition: fifty years of Indian independence -- The reversal of orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the project of indigenist social theory.
Political science
Nationalism
Postcolonialism