The insurrection of little selves
Subtitle: the crisis of secular-nationalism in India
By: Aditya Nigam.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Secularism -- India; Nationalism -- India; India -- Politics and government -- 1977-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Nationalism, democracy, and the postcolonial world; title: 2. Nation and infranationalisms : secular-nationalism comes apart; title: 3. Antinomies of secularism : the Indian career of the concept; title: 4. The impossible nation : the modern 'Indian' self in search of history; title: 5. Secularism, modernity, nation : an epistemology of the Dalit critique; title: 6. Secularism the Marxist way : 'high' theory and 'low' practice.