Specters of Mother India : The Global Restructuring of an Empire
Mrinalini. Sinha
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2006.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (387 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; About the Series; Acknowledgments; Note on Nomenclature and Transliteration; Introduction: The Anatomy of an Event; 1. A Transitional Moment: The Dynamics of an Interwar Imperial Social Formation; 2. Unpredictable Outcome: The Trajectory of a Transatlantic Intervention; 3. Ironic Reversal: The Rhetoric of ''Facts'' in the Controversy over Mother India; 4. Refashioning Mother India: The Sarda Act and Women's Collective Agency; 5. Ambiguous Aftermath: Political Consolidation on the Eve of the Second World War; Epilogue: History, Memory, Event; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - A historical analysis of a book-inspired controversy that in its dimensions rivalled Hernnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve and Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and brought forth a new political collectivity in India's women.
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Emner | Mayo, Katherine : (NO-TrBIB)90706398
Imperialism - History India - Politics and government Women - Social conditions - India Vis mer... History & Archaeology
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East South Asia india historie mellomkrigstiden 1920-tallet 1930-tallet kvinner imperialisme kolonialisme sosiale forhold 1900-tallet |
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ISBN | 0822337827. - 0822337959. - 9780822337959
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