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This study offers a systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history.

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Linear history and the nation-state; Bifurcating linear histories in China and India; the campaigns against religion and the return of the repressed; secret brotherhood and revolutionary discourse in China's Republican revolution; the genealogy of Fengjian or feudalism - narratives of civil society and state; provincial narratives of the nation - federalism and centralism in modern China; critics of modernity in India and China.

Rescuing History from the Nation Questioning

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/01/1997
    ISBN13: 9780226167220, 978-0226167220
    ISBN10: 0226167224
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    Asian history Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This study offers a systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history.

    Table of Contents
    Linear history and the nation-state; Bifurcating linear histories in China and India; the campaigns against religion and the return of the repressed; secret brotherhood and revolutionary discourse in China's Republican revolution; the genealogy of Fengjian or feudalism - narratives of civil society and state; provincial narratives of the nation - federalism and centralism in modern China; critics of modernity in India and China.

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