Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School - Brossura

Srivastava, Sanjay

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415178568 ISBN 13: 9780415178563

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1998

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An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.

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The Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys in India, inculcates in its students the notion that to be post-colonial is to be rational, secular and metropolitan. The school numbers many of India's political, social and intellectual elite among its former students; its code of conduct for the modern Indian citizen has been extremely influential. In this detailed study, Sanjay Srivastava digs deep to find the roots of the ideological construction of post-coloniality in India. The Doon School is the site of his analysis but his work ranges far beyond the School itself. He uses historical sources, ethnographic fieldwork and perspectives from cultural theory to question the prevailing theoretical positions of post-colonial studies, arguing that post-coloniality is meaningless unless it is located in historical, social and cultural space.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415178568
• ISBN 13: 9780415178563
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 274