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Title Culture and the making of identity in contemporary India / edited by Kamala Ganesh, Usha Thakkar
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1; 1 -- From Interior Landscapes into Cyberspace: Fluidity and Dynamics of Tradition; 2 -- From Sankara to Fusion: An Indian Musical Spectrum; 3 -- Lineages of the Modern in Indian Art: The Making of a National History; 4 -- Divided by a Common Language: The Novel in India, in English and in English Translation; Part 2; 5 -- Translating Sensibility; 6 -- What Does Translation Mean in India?; 7 -- Inter-culturalism and the Question of Body; 8 -- Inter-culturalism and Intra-culturalism in Theatre: A Personal Response
Summary This collection of 17 original essays provides insights into the various ways in which the interrelated issues of culture, identity and Indianness are expressed in contemporary times. The contributions range from detailed and scholarly essays to critical reviews of literature and reflections on experience. The contributors, distinguished specialists writing for a general readership, outline and evaluate significant developments since Independence in their respective fields
Notes "The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Bicentenary volume."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Feminism -- India
Science -- Study and teaching -- India
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Civilization
Feminism
Historiography
Science -- Study and teaching
Zivilisation
Identitätsfindung
Feminism -- India.
Science -- Study and teaching -- India.
Identité collective -- Inde.
Civilisation -- Inde.
SUBJECT India -- Civilization -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064876
India -- Historiography
Subject India
India -- Civilization -- 1947-
India -- Historiography.
Inde -- Historiographie.
Form Electronic book
Author Ganesh, Kamala.
Thakkar, Usha.
Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
LC no. 2005003590
ISBN 9788132103547
8132103548
1282424947
9781282424944
661242494X
9786612424946