Communal Identity in India : Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century
Chakrabarty,Bidyut
Communal Identity in India : Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century / edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty - Oxford India Paperbacks - New Delhi : Oxford University Press ,2003
This collection of seminal essays provides a useful and stimulating introduction to the debates surrounding identity-politics in modern India. Through the selected articles, each of which discusses different aspects of the central debate, the volume stresses the need to stay away from an
'essentialist' definition of identity, a view particularly significant in India today; and it concludes that communal identity, though imagined and constructed, is nevertheless not unreal.
9780195663303
India, Social Life And Customs, Ethnicity,
Group Identity
Social Movements
303.60954 CHA
Communal Identity in India : Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century / edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty - Oxford India Paperbacks - New Delhi : Oxford University Press ,2003
This collection of seminal essays provides a useful and stimulating introduction to the debates surrounding identity-politics in modern India. Through the selected articles, each of which discusses different aspects of the central debate, the volume stresses the need to stay away from an
'essentialist' definition of identity, a view particularly significant in India today; and it concludes that communal identity, though imagined and constructed, is nevertheless not unreal.
9780195663303
India, Social Life And Customs, Ethnicity,
Group Identity
Social Movements
303.60954 CHA
