The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas - Kaviraj, Sudipta (New York : Columbia University Press, 2010)
On state, society, and discourse in India -- On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony -- On the structure of n ationalist discourse -- Writing, speaking, being: language and the hist orical formation of identities in India -- The imaginary institution of India -- A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India - - Government and opposition: fifty years of Indian independence -- The reversal of orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the project of indigen ist social theory.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Political science -- India -- Philosophy; Nationalism -- India; Postcolonialism -- India; India -- Social conditions -- 1947-; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-