Alternative Indias : writing, nation and communalism

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Alternative Indias : writing, nation and communalism

Title remainder

writing, nation and communalism

Statement of responsibility

edited by Peter Morey and Alex Tickell

Contributor

• Tickell, Alex
• Morey, Peter

Subject

• Communalism in literature
• Nationalism in literature
• Religion and literature -- India
• Writing in literature

Language

eng

Summary

The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Indian writing in English has fostered a long tradition of political dissent, and has repeatedly questioned ethnocentric, culturally exclusive forms of p

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• Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures in English, 82
• Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures in English,, 82

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Index

index present

LC call number

PK5410.N37

LC item number

A58 2005eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

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• bibliography