The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, Third Edition (Oxford India Perennials) - Softcover

Pandey, Gyanendra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198077300 ISBN 13: 9780198077305

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This is a radically new analysis of communalism along with nationalism and colonialism. It is a part of a larger exercise aimed at understanding the construction of Indian society, and politics in recent times by challenging the conventional analysis of communalism and providing alternative theoretical cues to grasp its nature and dynamics. The book also explores how nationalism and communalism are constructed out of shared as well as contested experiences and out of common and mutually contradictory visions and struggles. It is a milestone in contemporary debates on nationalist policies and modern political communities. Given the worldwide resurgence of religious nationalism and communalism, this new edition reopens many of the questions signalled in the first edition and carries the discussion forward. The centenary edition contains a new Foreword.

This book will be an important reading for scholars, teachers, and students of modern Indian history. It will also interest sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists.

About this title

About the Author:

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0198077300
• ISBN 13: 9780198077305
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 360