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Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Societyvolume VII

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Nation, community, religion, and language are the main themes which run through the writings in this volume of Subaltern Studies . Sudipta Kaviraj identifies some of the narrative modes though which the nationalist consciousness in India imagined a historical past for the nation. He then discusses how such an imaginary institution of India impoverished the earlier "fuzzy" sense of community and put in its place fixed and "enumerable" communities. Partha Chatterjee looks at the way the new middle class of Calcutta ...

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Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Societyvolume VII 1994, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195633627

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