Communal Identity in India : Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century / edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty

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Chakrabarty,Bidyut

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press ,2003Edition: Oxford India PaperbacksISBN:

9780195663303

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DDC classification:

23 303.60954 CHA

Summary: 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.

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Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection	SNU LIBRARY	303.60954 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection	G7954

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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.

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