Indian Traffic Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Name: Indian Traffic Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India
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ISBN: 9780520204874

ISBN-10: 0520204875

ISBN-13: 9780520204874

Edition: 1999

Authors: Parama Roy

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The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources--religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films--making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for "western" or…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 237
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Identities and Negotiations in Colonial and Postcolonial India



Oriental Exhibits: The Englishman as Native



Discovering India, Imagining Thuggee



Anglo/Indians and Others: The Ins and Outs of the Nation



As the Master Saw Her: Western Women and Hindu Nationalism



Becoming Women: The Genders of Nationalism



Figuring Mother India: The Case of Nargis


Epilogue


Notes


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Index