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Beyond belief : India and the politics of postcolonial nationalism

Analysing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, this text explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state
Print Book, English, 2007
Duke University Press, Durham, 2007
History
xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780822339847, 9780822340010, 9780822389910, 0822339846, 0822340011, 0822389916
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Introduction : Imagining institutions, instituting diversity : toward a theory of nation-state formation
Moving pictures : the Films Division of India and the visual practices of the nation-state
Marching in time : Republic Day parades and the ritual practices of the nation-state
Indian darkness : science, development, and the needs discourse of the nation-state
Cities of hope : steel townships and the spatial practices of the nation-state
Conclusion : after midnight