The imaginary institution of India
Subtitle: politics and ideas
By: Sudipta Kaviraj.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780231152228; 9780231152235; 9780231526517
Subjects: Political science -- India -- Philosophy; Nationalism -- India; Postcolonialism -- India; India -- Social conditions -- 1947-; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On state, society, and discourse in India; title: On the construction of colonial power: structure; title: Discourse, hegemony; title: On the structure of nationalist discourse; title: Writing, speaking, being: language and the; title: Historical formation of identities in India; title: The imaginary institution of India; title: A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state; title: In India; title: Government and opposition: fifty years of Indian; title: Independence; title: The reversal of orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay; title: And the project of indigenist social theory.