Sanjay Srivastava

Constructing Post-Colonial India

National Character and the Doon School

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Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens.

Produktdetails

• Culture and Communication in Asia
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780415178556
• ISBN-10: 041517855X
• Artikelnr.: 26685211

Autorenporträt

Sanjay Srivastava trained as a social anthropologist and is presently senior lecturer in the School of Literary and Communication Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the seductions of capital 1 Practical minds
solid builders
and sane opinions 2 The marble mirage: constructing the Orient 3 The garden of rational delights 4 Secularism
the citizen
and Hindu contextualism 5 The management of water: capitalism
class
and science 6 The order of men: sentiments of the metropolis
settlements of civil society 7 Conclusion: 'post-coloniality'
national identity
globalisation
and the simulacra of the real