When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.
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Publisher
T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226305097
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87087502
Product Key Features
Author
Manu Goswami
Publication Name
Producing India: from Colonial Economy to National Space
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
226mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
620g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Manu Goswami
Series Title
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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