Description:
Frontmatter --Preface --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1 Historiography --Chapter 2 (Meta)narrative --Chapter 3 Hurreebabu and the Royal Society --Chapter 4 National Hinduism --Chapter 5 The Nehruvian and the Developmental --Chapter 6 The Volk and Fascism --Conclusions --Select Bibliography --Index
This volume examines the tension between the "nation" idea as a necessary language of legitimacy with which to claim liberation, and its role in disciplining people and their identities in India, in the name of national liberation. It is an attempt to open up new lines of thinking, and ways of reading Indian history