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Kaviraj, Sudipta.

The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas / Sudipta Kaviraj. - New York ; New Delhi : Columbia University Press; permanent black, c2010. - 299 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On state, society, and discourse in India -- On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony -- On the structure of nationalist discourse -- Writing, speaking, being: language and the historical formation of identities in India -- The imaginary institution of India -- A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India -- Government and opposition: fifty years of Indian independence -- The reversal of orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the project of indigenist social theory.

ISBN: 8178243571 9780231152228 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231152221 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231152235 (pbk. : alk. paper) 023115223X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231526517 (ebook) 0231526512 (ebook)

LCCN: 2009049464

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB011575 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015478534 Uk

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LC Class. No.: JA84.I4 / K4 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 306.20954