Kaviraj, Sudipta.

The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas / Sudipta Kaviraj. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2010. - 299 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On state, society, and discourse in India -- On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony -- On the structure of nationalist discourse -- Writing, speaking, being: language and the historical formation of identities in India -- The imaginary institution of India -- A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India -- Government and opposition: fifty years of Indian independence -- The reversal of orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the project of indigenist social theory.

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Political science--Philosophy.--India
Nationalism--India.
Postcolonialism--India.


India--Social conditions--1947-
India--Politics and government--1947-

306.20954 KAV