01115nam a2200193Ia 4500 20261005142239.0 260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9780195663303 23 303.60954 CHA 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. India, Social Life And Customs, Ethnicity, Group Identity Social Movements RBK 68659 68659 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-03 0 303.60954 CHA G7954 2026-06-03 15:18:00 2026-06-03 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection