Alternative Indias
Subtitle: Writing, Nation and Communalism (Cross/Cultures 82) (Cross/Cultures)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789042019270
Subjects: Films, cinema; Literary studies: general; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; India
First sentence: IN HIS DISCUSSION of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's formulation of a "new national religion" that would demonstrate the "autonomous subjectivity of the nation," Partha Chatterjee goes on to ask a question that has recently assumed much greater urgency now that the forces of Hindutva have not only challenged the 'secular' Indian state but found themselves comfortably embedded at the centre of the all-India political arena.