Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review. . .a significant contribution to both Gandhian studies and our understanding of India between 1920 and 1940.
* Religious Studies Review *
. . . a fascinating and informative study of that most familiar artefact of Indian nationalism. Its main achievement is to present a coherent and very persuasive analysis of the ways in which this basic, everyday object became representative of the nation.Summer 2009
* Journal of Social History *
Trivedi engages with relevant theoretical and historiographical issues, and this is done whle maintaining a clear, and readable narrative. . . . Students will find it accessible and informative as they study the history of modern India. Researchers working on nationalism, consumption and visual studies will find this thoughtfully argued book very useful indeed. Vol. 18.4, December 2010
* Contemporary South Asia *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Politics of Consumption: Swadeshi and Its Institutions
2. Technologies of Nationhood: Visually Mapping the Nation
3. The Nation Clothed: Making an "Indian" Body
4. Rituals of Time: The Flag and the Nationalist Calendar
5. Inhabiting National Space: Khadi in Public
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
