India's Search for National Identity
Author | : Ainslie Thomas Embree |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ainslie Thomas Embree |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sharmistha Saha |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2018-11-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9811311773 |
This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries. It opens up with the discourse around ‘Indian theatre’ that was started by the orientalists in the late 18th century, and which continued till much later. The study specifically focuses on the two major urban centres of colonial India: Bombay and Calcutta of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses different cultural practices in colonial India, including the initiation of ‘Indian theatre’ practices, which resulted in many forms of colonial-native ‘theatre’ by the 19th century; the challenges to this dominant discourse from the ‘swadeshi jatra’ (national jatra/theatre) in Bengal, which drew upon earlier folk and religious traditions and was used as a tool by the nationalist movement; and the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) that functioned from Bombay around the 1940s, which focused on the creation of one national subject – that of the ‘Indian’. The author contextualizes the relevance of the concept of ‘Indian theatre’ in today’s political atmosphere. She also critically analyses the post-Independence Drama Seminar organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1956 and its relevance to the subsequent organization of ‘Indian theatre’. Many theatre personalities who emerged as faces of smaller theatre committees were part of the seminar which envisioned a national cultural body. This book is an important contribution to the field and is of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies, especially Theatre and Performance Studies, and South Asian Studies.
Author | : Shanti Kumar |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252091663 |
Shanti Kumar's Gandhi Meets Primetime examines how cultural imaginations of national identity have been transformed by the rapid growth of satellite and cable television in postcolonial India. To evaluate the growing influence of foreign and domestic satellite and cable channels since 1991, the book considers a wide range of materials including contemporary television programming, historical archives, legal documents, policy statements, academic writings and journalistic accounts. Kumar argues that India's hybrid national identity is manifested in the discourses found in this variety of empirical sources. He deconstructs representations of Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation on the state-sponsored network Doordarshan and those found on Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV network. The book closely analyzes print advertisements to trace the changing status of the television set as a cultural commodity in postcolonial India and examines publicity brochures, promotional materials and programming schedules of Indian-language networks to outline the role of vernacular media in the discourse of electronic capitalism. The empirical evidence is illuminated by theoretical analyses that combine diverse approaches such as cultural studies, poststructuralism and postcolonial criticism.
Author | : Fred R Dallmayr |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1998-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This anthology documents the search of Indian intellectuals, politicians, and writers to forge a cultural identity despite and because of colonialism. The first part brings together major voices in India's struggle against colonialism; the second presents interpretive essays on the legacy of the great nationalist leaders; modernization and its discontents; the communal, ethnic, and interfaith relationships; and the future course of life in post-colonial India. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : G. N. Devy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788170366980 |
Author | : Ainslie T. Embree |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9780393937282 |
Part of the Reacting to the Past series, Defining a Nation plunges students into India's struggle for sovereignty and identity.
Author | : Sumita S. Chakravarty |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2011-05-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0292789858 |
Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ideological construction of Indian national identity. Informed by theoretical developments in film theory, cultural studies, postcolonial discourse, and “Third World” cinema, the book identifies the major genres and movements within Bombay cinema since Independence and uses them to enter larger cultural debates about questions of identity, authenticity, citizenship, and collectivity. Chakravarty examines numerous films of the period, including Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965), Shri 420 [The gentleman cheat] (Raj Kapoor, 1955), and Bhumika [The role] (Shyam Benegal, 1977). She shows how “imperso-nation,” played out in masquerade and disguise, has characterized the representation of national identity in popular films, so that concerns and conflicts over class, communal, and regional differences are obsessively evoked, explored, and neutralized. These findings will be of interest to film and area specialists, as well as general readers in film studies.
Author | : D. Anand |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230339549 |
The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics and politics of fear and violence engendered within Hindu nationalism.
Author | : Manu Goswami |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2010-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226305104 |
When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.
Author | : Judith Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |