TY - BOOK AU - Kaviraj, Sudipta. TI - The imaginary institution of India: politics and ideas SN - 9780231152235 U1 - 306.20954 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Political science KW - India KW - Philosophy KW - Nationalism KW - Postcolonialism KW - Social conditions KW - 1947- KW - Politics and government N1 - 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 ER -