Struggle for Hegemony in India (1920-47)

The Colonial State, the Left and the National Movement Volume III: 1941-47: Culture, Community and Power
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8039-9141-5
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Gewicht: 571 g

In this, the last volume of the series on the role of the Communist Party of India during the period 1920-47, the authors focus on the socio-cultural project of integrating a hegemonic view of Indian society as a basis for Indian nationhood. The authors expound that the struggle for power is about social conditions and cultural forms as sites of political tension.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joshi, Shashi

Josh, Bhagwan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Culture, Community and Power
An Introduction
Outline of a Theory of Cultural Power
The Power of the Past
Two Paradigms of Cultural Hegemony
Power and Hegemony
The Site of Cultural Struggle
The Cultural Faultline and its Mirrors
The State in Medieval North India and the Cultural Faultline
Women and Sexuality in the Discourse of Communalism and Communal Violence
Narratives of Cultural Contest
The Cultural Complexion of the Nation
Indian National Congress Versus Hindu Mahasabha
Cultural Limits to Secular Politics
Sermons of National Unity

Über Autor(innen)

Josh, Bhagwan
Bhagwan Josh is Professor of Contemporary History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Besides writing for scholarly journals, he has contributed essays to many edited books. He is one of the project committee members of ‘Europe–South Asia Maritime Heritage Project’. He has also been co-director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project on the ‘History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947’.

Joshi, Shashi
Shashi Joshi is former Senior Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. A PhD in History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr Joshi began her career as a senior lecturer in History at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has also been a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. From 1983 to 1987, she was co-director of the ‘History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947’—a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

Dr Joshi has authored a book, The Last Durbar: A Dramatic Presentation of the Division of British India, published in India and Pakistan simultaneously in 2006. She has authored Religion, Mission and Caste: Essays in the History of Christanity in India (2008). Presently, she is finalising the manuscript for another book, ‘In Gandhi’s Arc: Charles Andrews and Gandhi’, to be published in 2012.