Journal article
Where ants dig up gold: ‘India’, selfhood and the myths manufacturing a nation
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Ideas of country, nation and state emerge through a process of creating an essence or essences, of manufacturing a single identity and memory for a collectivity, however diverse. The formation of India, like other countries, has been complicit in this process – never more so than now, when legends of heroes from epic yore shape the ideology of divisive Indian politics. A young ‘nation’ born in 1947, ‘India’ is even today uncomfortable with the idea of nationhood, and many of the problems i...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- British Academy Publisher's website
- Journal:
- British Academy Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 30
- Pages:
- 46-49
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-02
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692126
- Deposit date:
- 2017-05-02
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- British Academy
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 British Academy. All Rights Reserved.
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