Producing India
Subtitle: from colonial economy to national space
By: Manu Goswami.
Series: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Nationalism -- India -- History.; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.; India -- Historical geography.; India -- Economic conditions.
Description: "When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people?

"Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment".--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-384) and index.