The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas /
Sudipta Kaviraj.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2014.
- 299 p. : pbk,
On state, society, and discourse in India -- On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony -- On the structure of nationalist discourse -- Writing, speaking, being: language and the historical formation of identities in India -- The imaginary institution of India -- A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India -- Government and opposition: fifty years of Indian independence -- The reversal of orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the project of indigenist social theory.