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100			_aChakrabarty,Bidyut
245		0	_aCommunal Identity in India _b: Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century _c/ edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty
250			_aOxford India Paperbacks
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Oxford University Press _c,2003
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aIndia, Social Life And Customs, Ethnicity,
650			_aGroup Identity
650			_aSocial Movements
942			_cRBK
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