Author: G Aloysuis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 265
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195646533
Description
this is a sociological interpretation of modern Indian history. It is also a hard-hitting critique of nationalist historiography as well as the Indian national movement.
The author evaluates anti-caste, non-Brahmin and other socio-religious movements in a new light. He sees the national movement in the context of a multiplicity of political awakenings , and concludes that internal cleavages within Indian society, rather than the obvious external contradiction between Indians and the British, were responsible for the outcome of the nationalist movement and the failure of the nation to emerge.
Quite stunning... an important intervention into historical understanding.
A significant, new, interpretative study of Indian nationalism.
A synthesis - a radical and illuminating one at that - of recent scholarship.
Contents
CHAPTER I
Introduction; Historical Sociology and
the Study of Nation and Nationalism in India
CHAPTER II
Colonial rule and the Old Order
CHAPTER III
Nation: Homogenization of Power within Culture
CHAPTER IV
Nationalism: the Movement for Transfer of Power
CHAPTER V
Nationalism; Competing Ideologies and Contrasting Visions
CHAPTER VI
Nationalism and Nation: The Gandhian Synthesis
CHAPTER VII
Nationalism without Nation
A Consolidated Bibliography of Books and Articles
Index