{"product_id":"india-a-national-culture","title":"India - A National Culture ?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Geeti Sen\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): Geeti Sen\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Sage Publications\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 294\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0761998134\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this exciting and unique collection of essays, eminent academics, art historians, photographers and dancers focus on one essential ingredient of the making of Indian nationalism - i.e. the ingredient of culture, and one that has resurfaced in everyday experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last two decades of the 20th century have witnessed a spectacular return of national consciousness.  These essays contribute incisive analytical comment on, and very different readings of, the fabric that constitutes 'culture'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the early stirrings of national fervor in the second half of the 19th century, through the secularism of the Nehruvian era in the 1950, to the all pervasive and persuasive refashioning of culture to political purpose, the contributors demonstrate convincingly the culture is not a static entity.  Rather, it can be refashioned, reinvented or co-opted to suit political purpose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is time, they argue, to once again reinvent an Indian culture that is intangible, that gets under the skin to resist the vicissitudes of political agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eNational Culture and Cultural Nationalism by Geeti Sen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVISIONS: SCRIPTING THE NATION\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts from \u003cbr\u003eSri Aurobindo\u003cbr\u003eMahatma Gandhi\u003cbr\u003eJawaharlal Nehru\u003cbr\u003eSarvepalli Radhakrishnan\u003cbr\u003eMaulana Azad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS . .\u003cbr\u003eGandhi's Retrieval of Indigenous Culture\u003cbr\u003eIn Pursuit of a Different Freedom: Tagore's World University at Santiniketan\u003cbr\u003eImbibing Culture at Kalakshetra\u003cbr\u003eAligarh Muslim University: recalling radical days\u003cbr\u003eA Memory of Coming to Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOICES: AFFIRMING PLURALITY \u003cbr\u003eThe persistence of Hindustani\u003cbr\u003eHolding the Nation Together\u003cbr\u003ePlural Cultures, Monolithic Structures\u003cbr\u003eRewording Homes: Colonialism, 'national' culture, and post-national India\u003cbr\u003ePoetry as an Expression of National Crisis: A Preface and three poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHOTO ESSAY\u003cbr\u003eTheatre of the Street\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMETAPHORS OF THE NATION\u003cbr\u003eIonizing the Nation: Political agendas\u003cbr\u003eThe Museum if National\u003cbr\u003eChicks, Kids and Couples: the nation in calendar art\u003cbr\u003eImage and Imagination: reconstructing the nation in cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHOTO ESSAY\u003cbr\u003eWomen Sadhus at the Kumbh Mela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVISTAS: THREE GLOBAL CUSP\u003cbr\u003eWhat's so Great about Lagaan\u003cbr\u003eEthnic Cuisine: the significant 'other'\u003cbr\u003eCricket's Social Subtext\u003cbr\u003eDemystifying the Nation and Nationalism\u003cbr\u003eNews Watch: in search of a national culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Geeti Sen \/ Sage Publications \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153601229168,"sku":"11820","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/11820.jpg?v=1793911474","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/india-a-national-culture","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}