Ramaswamy The Goddess and the Nation

Mapping Mother India
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9153-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

A history of the role that images of Mother India played in helping a vast, heterogeneous population to imagine the Indian nation and associate themselves with it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramaswamy, Sumathi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xv

Prologue: Yearning for Form 1

1. Formal Concerns 13

2. Other Women, Other Mothers 73

3. Vande Mataram 117

4. Enshrining the Map of India 151

5. Between Men, Map, and Mother 177

6. Daughters of India 237

Epilogue: Pictorial History in the Age of the World Picture 283

Notes 301

References 353

Index 371

Über Autor(innen)

Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories and Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India and the editor of Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India.