The Nation Form

Essays on Indian Nationalism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-81-321-0733-0
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Most writings on the theme of the nation confine themselves to discussions of ideology and thoughts on nationalism, leaving out the question of the form of the nation. This selection of writings by Ranabir Samaddar fills in that void and presents a whole range of dimensions, perspectives, and controversies of the last two decades on the question of the nation in India. It looks at the form of the Indian nation in terms of contests, contradictions, classes, and nationalist strategies of inclusion and exclusion, thereby addressing two significant issues in view of the nation form—its relation with democracy and the problem of governing the nation.

This selection not only comprises essays that stand on their own merit, but also, in totality, presents a historical summary of the nation’s experience through decades—before and after Independence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samaddar, Ranabir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Conflicts and Contradictions in the Nation Form
The Manifold Meaning of Territoriality in Nationalism

What Was Asia to the Asians?

The Birth of a Nation

Promises of Revolution

The Dynamics of Passive Revolution

The World of the Edges

Legality, Illegality, and Reasons of State

Cartographic Representations and Anxieties

Shefali

The Ineluctable Logic of Geopolitics

The Autonomous Spaces within the Nation
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Samaddar, Ranabir
Ranabir Samaddar is the Director of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and belongs to the school of critical thinking. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia.

Samaddar’s particular researches have spread over a wide area comprising migration and refugee studies, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and postcolonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control.

His recent political writings The Emergence of the Political Subject (2009) and The Nation Form (2012) have signalled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking and have challenged some of the prevailing accounts of the birth of nationalism and the nation state.