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Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility

Marian Aguiar
University of Minnesota Press
2011

Political Aesthetics of the Nation: Murals and Statues in the Indian Parliament

Author(s): 
Shirin M. Rai
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2014.882147

Abstract: This essay argues that aesthetic approaches to studying politics can allow us to read politics in more nuanced ways. Through the study of murals and statues in the Indian parliament, it is suggested that the politics of art and the art of politics are conjoined. In particular, the essay examines the ways in which the postcolonial Indian state reproduces the discourse of nationalism and modernity through its production of a nationalist aesthetic and how the consumption of this aesthetics results in struggles over meaning-making and its legitimacy.

A Subaltern Studies Reader

Ranajit Guha
University of Minnesota Press
1997

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Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali
Columbia University Press
2010

No Elephants for the Maharaja: Social and Political Change in the Princely State of Travancore, 1921-1947

Ouwerkerk, Louise
Kooiman, Dick
Manohar
1994

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Nandy, Ashis
Oxford UP
1983

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Minault, Gail
Oxford
1999

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Ronald Inden
Oxford
2001

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Robinson, Andrew
Bloomsbury
1995

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R. Palme Dutt
Read Books
2008

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