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Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag

"Charts a history of the national flag of India in colonial and post-colonial periods and looks at the politics that go into the making of various discourses and ways of looking at the Indian national flag"--

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Autor principal: Sadan Jha (Autor)
Format: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicat: Newdelhi Cambridge University Press India 2016
Edició:1st Ed.
Matèries:
Taula de continguts:
  • Rise of the flag
  • Flag on the Hut: totem and a political symbol
  • The Indian national flag as a site of daily plebiscite
  • Shades of history: a case of saffron colour
  • Visualizing an ideal political order
  • A post colonial symbol
  • Gendered symbol, communal politics
  • Epilogue: the flag as a sacred political symbol.