Beyond Belief by Srirupa Roy
Explores 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.-
Punishing the Poor
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Ruins of Modernity
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American Empire and the Politics of Meaning
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States of Memory
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German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
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The Cunning of Recognition
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The Assassination of Theo Van Gogh
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The Art of the Network
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Sociology and Empire
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German Colonialism in a Global Age
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Liberalism Without Democracy
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Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea
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Markets of Dispossession
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Affective Communities
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States of Imagination
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The Spectacular State
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Colored Amazons
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The Remains of War
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The Other Zulus
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Disciplining Statistics
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The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences
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City of Extremes
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Creating Market Socialism
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Nostalgia for the Modern
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Remaking Modernity
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Ruling Oneself Out
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Class and the Color Line
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Bourdieu and Historical Analysis
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Subject Lessons
“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 itselfThis 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
“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 Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies
“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 *
“Srirupa Roy’s Beyond Belief 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 *
“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 Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies
“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 *
“Srirupa Roy’s Beyond Belief 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 *
Srirupa Roy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a coeditor of Violence and Democracy in India.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822340010 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822340011 |
| Title | Beyond Belief |
| Author | Srirupa Roy |
| Series | Politics History And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2007-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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