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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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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Idioma: | English |
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Newdelhi
Cambridge University Press India
2016
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| Edició: | 1st Ed. |
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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.