The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas /
Sudi pta Kaviraj.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
- 299 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Political science--Philosophy.--India Nationalism--India. Postcolonialism--India.
India--Social conditions-- 1947- India--Politics and government-- 1947-