Communal identity in India : its construction and articulation in the twentieth century

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Communal identity in India : its construction and articulation in the twentieth century

edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty

(Oxford in India readings)

Oxford University Press, 2005

Oxford India paperbacks

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-313) and index

Originally published: 2003

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works
  • Extracts from The collected works of Mahatma Gandhi / M.K. Gandhi
  • Presidential address of M.A. Jinnah, Lahore, March 1940 / M.A Jinnah
  • Excerpts from Hindutva / V.D Savarkar
  • Fluidity or compartments: Hindus, Muslims and partition / Bidyut Chakrabarty
  • Discourses on national identity / Bhikhu Parekh
  • Race, caste, and ethnic identity / Andre Breteille
  • Ethno-linguistic issues in the Indian federal context / A.R Kamat
  • Politics of diversity: religious communities and multiple patriarchies / Kumkum Sangari
  • Community formation and communal conflict: Namasudra-Muslim Riotin Jessore-Khulna / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
  • Insiders and outsiders in India: primordial collectivism and cultural pluralism in nation-building / T.K Oommen
  • Hinduism as Delhi rule: Periyar and the National Question / Gail Omvedt
  • Jat Sikhs: a question of identity / Ravinder Kaur
  • Fluid Boundaries: Christian communities in India / Rowena Robinson
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The essays in this volume, the third in the Debates in Indian History and Society series, address the contested issue of community identities as they evolved historically in the course of the twentieth century in India.

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