Nationalism in India

This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.

Autorentext

Debajyoti Biswas is an Assistant Professor of English at Bodoland University, India.

John Charles Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indian Nationalism; 2. The Founder of Hindu Nationalism?: Representation of Shivaji in Philip Meadows Taylor's Tara; 3. Nation-in-Translation: Interrogating the Ethno-Cultural Discourse of "Nation-ness" in Anandamath; 4. Proto-Nationalist Spectacle on Nineteenth-Century Bengali Stage; 5. From Revolt to Rustication: Urdu and the Indian National Imagination (18571947); 6. Divided Nations, Unified Sensibilities: Tales of the Woe of the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent; 7. The Question of Language in the Mothering of a Territory: Understanding Conflicts in Embodiment of Territories in a Multilingual Space; 8. Nationalism through the Glorification of a Precolonial Indian Past in the Work of Chandamama; 9. Re-examining Nationalism and Hindu Religious Rhetoric in India: A Reading of Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness; 10. Unacceptable Citizens: Queer Communities and Homonationalism in India; 11. The 'Queer Nation' - Moving Beyond Boundaries? A Study of Select South Asian Novels; 12. Expression of Ecological Nationalism in the Lyrical Narratives of Bhupen Hazarika; 13. "This Is Our Homeland. Out With Foreign Infiltrators" A Study of Geography, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Mitra Phukan's The Collector's Wife; 14. Reconfiguring Indian Nationalism