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1	Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India more books like this by Peter Van Der Veer add to wishlist This study of the relationship between religion and politics in India uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, to demonstrate how Indian religious identities have been shaped by pilgrimage, migration, language and the media. see all copies from $7.64! new only from $19.95!
2	Globalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Christians in India more books like this by Lancy Lobo add to wishlist "In the present-day context of growing economic fundamentalism triggered by the process of globalisation and rising religious fundamentalism needed to redefine changing identities, the micro as well as macro level politics has emerged as a complex arena of analysis. This book deals with such a problematique by examining the position of the ... see all copies from $16.62! new only from $16.62!
3	The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship more books like this by Lindsey Harlan add to wishlist The Rajputs ruled the vast majority of the kingdoms that were joined together after Indian independence to form the state of Rajasthan, "Land of Kings." An important part of Rajput religion is the worship of "heroes" who have died in battle. This practice has attained new significance in recent years, as right-wing Hindu activists have deployed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal more books like this by Fayeza S Hasanat (Translator) add to wishlist In the framework of a romantic tale, Faizunnesa recorded how women were always treated as agents of chaos and desire, and how their resisting voices were always silenced in a religiously motivated society. This book examines her text as a critique of male dominance in the Muslim society of colonial Bengal. see all copies from $74.08! new only from $78.73!
5	The Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Globalization more books like this by Rupal Oza add to wishlist This is an ambitious study of gender and politics in India, and will be of interest to scholars of women's studies, globalization, postcolonialism, geography, media studies, and cultural studies, as well as India more generally. see all copies from $15.98! new only from $15.98!
6	The Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India more books like this by Aditya Nigam add to wishlist The book explores the crisis that secular-nationalism went through with the emergence of what is loosely called identity politics. With the rise of new political assertions on the one hand and sectarian tendencies on the other, the fundamentally Hindu assumptions of Nehruvian secular-nationalism were revealed. Its search for a homogeneous national ... see all copies from $19.20! new only from $19.20! \| first editions
7	The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus: Comprising the Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India more books like this by Professor Gyanendra Pandey add to wishlist The Omnibus brings together seminal writings of distinguished academician, Gyanendra Pandey. It consists of three books. The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1920-40 investigates the social contradictions, class forces, and efforts at political mobilization in Uttar Pradesh. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, charts ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $25.00! \| first editions
8	A Hindu Education: Early Years of the Banaras Hindu University more books like this by Leah Renold add to wishlist The volume aims at a critical assessment of one of the influential institutions of the late colonial era. By focusing on the history of Hindu education at Banaras Hindu University, a major university of British India between 1915 to 1947, the book explores the complex inter-relationships between religion, education, identity formation, resistance ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions
9	The Felt Community: Commonality and Mentality Before the Emergence of Indian Nationalism more books like this by Rajat Kanta Ray add to wishlist This book provides a historical context to the international debate on the nature of nationalism by examining the ideas, feelings and identities that existed in the Indian subcontinent before the emergence of modern nationalism. It argues that there was an earlier felt community which provided a real psychic foundation to the nationalism that ... see all copies from $18.49! new only from $18.49! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism more books like this by Francesca Orsini add to wishlist This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. To a colonized people agitating for freedom, a people divided by many languages, cultures and religions, the one language--one nation concept of nationalism proved to be both powerful and seductive. In polyphonic India, however, such a ... see all copies from $21.00! new only from $21.00! \| SVS
11	India: A National Culture? more books like this by Professor Geeti Sen add to wishlist This volume has emerged out of an enthused response to contribute essays on the making of Indian nationalism - an aspect that assumes importance in the wake of a spectacular return of national consciousness through the decades of the 80s and 90s. The essays in this volume are incisive analytical comments on what constitutes Indian culture. see all copies from $26.40! new only from $29.95!
12 view cover	Clothing Gandhi's Nation: Homespun and Modern India more books like this by Lisa N Trivedi add to wishlist How an ordinary country cloth became a symbol of the Indian nation see all copies from $19.37! new only from $23.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility more books like this by Arindam Dutta add to wishlist "The Bureaucracy of Beauty" is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the best description of it. "The Bureaucracy of Beauty" ... see all copies from $43.95! new only from $43.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India more books like this by John Zavos (Editor), Andrew Wyatt (Editor), Vernon Hewitt (Editor) add to wishlist OTO see all copies from $11.69! new only from $13.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	India: Living with Modernity more books like this by Javeed Alam add to wishlist The most pertinent social, economic and political issues confronting India today crucially centre around the question of modernity. This text seeks to untangle the complex, and often contradictory, constructions of modernity. It suggests ways of approaching modernity which are liberatory, rather than oppressive, and may help in the struggle for a ... see all copies from $7.68! new only from $13.55!
16 view cover	Nationalism more books like this by Rabindranath Tagore add to wishlist Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters. These have offered us problems and claimed their solutions from us, the penalty of non-fulfilment being death or degradation. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $7.48! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Thought World of Hindu Nationalism: Analyzing a Political Ideology more books like this add to wishlist This book analyzes textual material and qualitative data on Hindu nationalism to reveal the co-existence of several 'self-other category relations' and of more elaborate schemas of interpretation in a transnationally circulating discourse often reduced to a cognitive pattern of binary 'us versus them' distinctions. The result is a theoretical ... see all copies from $159.48! new only from $159.48!
18	Indian National Movement more books like this by Hassan Imam add to wishlist Study on the role of contribution made by people of Bihar towards the national movement during 1919-1931. see all copies from $29.57! new only from $196.78!
19	Gandhi, Rowlatt Satyagraha, and British Imperialism: Emergence of Mass Movements in Punjab & Delhi more books like this by Hari Singh, Hari add to wishlist see all copies from $16.59! new only from $16.59!
20	Foundations of Nationalism in India: A Study of Bankimchandra Chatterjee more books like this by M. K. Haldar add to wishlist see all copies from $13.99! new only from $13.99!
21	The Ctbt and the Rise of Nuclear Nationalism in India: Linkage Between Nuclear Arms Race, Arms Control, and Disarmament more books like this by T T Poulose add to wishlist see all copies from $20.32! new only from $20.32!
22 view cover	Bonfire of Creeds: The Essential Ashis Nandy more books like this by Professor Ashis Nandy add to wishlist This collection of essays invites the readers to revisit Ashis Nandy's thinking and to explore with new insights the open-ended adventure defining his life and works. These essays continue to challenge us, forcing us to ask ourselves new questions, even as they offer guidance in the regeneration and re-enchantment of our own selves. The book is ... see all copies from $55.33! new only from $55.33!
23 view cover	Indian Politics and Society Since Independence: Events, Processes and Ideology more books like this by Chakrabarty Bid, Bidyut Chakrabarty add to wishlist Focusing on politics and society in India, this book explores new areas enmeshed in the complex social, economic and political processes in the country. Linking the structural characteristics with the broader sociological context, the book emphasizes the strong influence of sociological issues on politics, such as social milieu shaping and the ... see all copies from $18.20! new only from $30.05!
24 view cover	Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1946 Part 1 more books like this by Sumit Sarkar, Bhattacharya add to wishlist Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume contains primary sources and archival documents related to the year 1946. It systematically covers in five chapters, different aspects of the history of British India beginning with events in the anti British movements in 1946, including the protests against the trial of the officers and soldiers of ... see all copies from $76.84! new only from $100.23! \| first editions
25 view cover	Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India more books like this by Naheem Jabbar, Jabbar Naheem add to wishlist This book offers a critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a critical analysis of the uses made of ... see all copies from $111.93! new only from $111.93!

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