{"product_id":"beyond-belief-9780822340010","title":"Beyond Belief","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores how nationalists are turned into nationals, the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state, and subjects into citizens. The author considers several ways that identification with the nation-state was produced and consolidated during the 1950s and 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Srirupa Roy offers fresh, innovative, and highly original perspectives on how the Indian nation-state set out to manufacture a national modernity and new ways of presenting itself. This is a much needed contribution to a critical assessment of the now quasi-mythical Nehruvian decades of postcolonial state formation from one of the best political scientists writing on India today.”—Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003e“This book marks a departure in the study of Indian nationalism. Srirupa Roy’s idea that nationalism works not as a ‘belief’ but through practices that seek to ground the state deeply in the life of the people, is demonstrated here by archival and ethnographic explorations of specific sites: rituals and pageantry of the state, official newsreels and documentaries, planned scientific institutions and industrial cities. The result is fine-grained political analysis enriched at every turn by the author’s judicious use of history and ethnography.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of \u003ci\u003eHabitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Srirupa Roy . . . has written an engaging and incisive study of the nation-building project in India. . . . Roy’s book is a welcome and original investigation into the origin and means of the national imagination of India.” -- Simona Vittorini * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *\u003cbr\u003e“Srirupa Roy’s\u003ci\u003e Beyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb contribution to the study of postcolonial nationalism and the complex lives of the postcolonial Indian nation-state. . . . [T]he book is an excellent and invaluable addition to the literature on Indian nationalism and the Indian nation-state as well as an important contribution to theories of nationalism, the state, and nation-state, and postcolonial studies. Lucid and concise, the book is extremely well written. Different methodological and disciplinary perspectives are employed in the text with rigor and carefulness to enrich one another.” -- Rohit Chopra * H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Imagining Institutions, Instituting Diversity: Toward a Theory of Nation-State Formation 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Moving Pictures: The Films Division of India and the Visual Practices of the Nation-State 32\u003cbr\u003e 2. Marching in Time: Republic Day Parades and the Ritual Practices of the Nation-State 66\u003cbr\u003e 3. Indian Darkness: Science, Development, and the Needs Discourse of the Nation-State 105\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cities of Hope: Steel Townships and the Spatial Practices of the Nation-State 133\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. After Midnight 157\u003cbr\u003e Notes 171\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 219\u003cbr\u003e Index 237","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406046470487,"sku":"9780822340010","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-belief-9780822340010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}