TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakrabarty,Bidyut
TI  - Communal Identity in India: : Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century
SN  - 9780195663303
U1  - 303.60954 CHA 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - : Oxford University Press
KW  - India, Social Life And Customs, Ethnicity,
KW  - Group Identity
KW  - Social Movements
N2  - 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
ER  -