num_pages: 288
description: Nation, community, religion, and language are the main themes which run through this volume of Subaltern Studies . Among the topics discussed in Volume VII are the identification of the narrative modes though which the nationalist consciousness in India imagined a historical past for thenation, a look at the way the new middle class of Calcutta constructed the figure of Sri Ramakrishna, the use of caste sanctions in the Swadeshi and Non-cooperation movements, and the writings of Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru.
language: English
title: Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 7
titlecomplete: Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 7
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Oxford University Press