Wages of Violence
Subtitle: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780691088402
Subjects: Asian studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Urban communities; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; India; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology - Urban; Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; 20th century; Bombay (India); Politics and government
First sentence: The sense of living as a historical being, to be the rightful inheritor of the deeds of the past, is crucial to the making of national identity.