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Nationhood and Identity Movements in Asia

Gupta, Swarupa [u.a.] [Hrsg.]
Nationhood and Identity Movements in Asia : Colonial and Post-colonial Times / edited by Swarupa Gupta. Associate editors, Rakhee Bhattacharya; Suchandana Chatterjee; Binoda K. Mishra. - Kolkata : Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India; distr. by Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2012. - viii, 355 S. - (Asia annual ; 2010)
ISBN 978-81-7304-960-6
Rs. 1150,00
US$ 44,75 (South Asia Books)
US$ 48,30 (D.K. Agencies)
US$ 60,90 (K.K. Agencies)
DDC: 320.54095

Beschreibung
This volume tells a new story of Asian nationalisms, moving beyond stereotypical representations of Asia as the exoticized/subjugated ‘other’ of Orientalism. It focuses on the interface between Asian forms of nationhood and identity-movements. Dispensing with Western prisms of looking at colonial/Asian nationalisms, it rethinks the relation between the West and the rest, by returning agency to Asians. Using a multidisciplinary methodology, this volume tracks constellations of unity predating the colonial modern, and sees how these operate within spirals of continuity through change. It traces and compares hitherto unexplored nationalist experiences in West, Central, South, South East and East Asia, gathered under the rubric of an internally-differentiated model of Asian nationalism. This moves beyond sectional micro-studies, connecting intra-regional, inter-regional and transnational/international identities in Asia. Seeing how pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial identities meld in specific contexts, this volume contains original thematic essays which fall into categories of: (1) Nationhood, Place and History; (2) Nationalism and State-Building; (3) Cultural Nationalism and Linguistic Identity; (4) Nationalisms in Eurasia; (5) Transnational Identities; and (6) Gender and Identity-Movements. What emerges is no single, uniform model of Asian nationalism, but different (from Western/European) forms of nationhood. Multiple pathways lead to discoveries of non-Western Asian experiences of nationhood through insiders’ narratives (intra-Asian voices). These make it possible to dream of a new Asia which avoids the snare of post-colonial inevitabilities of fragmentation, fundamentalisms and core-periphery problems. Arguing that the continuation of the colonial into the post-colonial can have positive possibilities, shaping new policies, spatialities, intercultural dialogue/cooperation, and economic/material connections, this volume shows how Asia emerges as a key-player in the history and contemporaneity of nationalism. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Swarupa Gupta:
Introduction. 1
NATIONHOOD, PLACE AND HISTORY : SPECIFICITIES, GENERALITIES AND MEMORIALIZATIONS
Peter Robb:
Place and Difference: Reflections on Indian Identities and on Swedish Baptists During British Rule. 31
Sanghamitra Misra:
Practices of Sovereignty, Practices of the Market: Writing Spatial Histories of North-Eastern India. 55
Tze-Ki Hon:
Colonial Nostalgia as a Means of Resistance: Historical Discourses in Post-1997 Hong Kong. 77
NATIONALISM AND STATE BUILDING
Kaushik Roy:
Insurgencies, Counter-Insurgencies and State-building in Asia: A Comparative Analysis. 99
Arpita Basu Roy:
Ethnicity and State-building in Afghanistan. 119
CULTURAL NATIONHOOD: ETHNICITY AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITY
Daniel J. Rycroft:
Indian Anthropology and the Construction of Tribal Ethnicity before Independence. 141
Buddhadev Bhattacharya:
Identity Image(s) and Actualities of the Bhoti Language Movement in Post-Colonial India. 167
NATIONALISMS IN EURASIA
Suchandana Chatterjee:
Shifting Perceptions in Buryat Identity. 183
Anita Sengupta:
Modernity and Denial: The Case of the Kurds in Turkey. 199
Antara Mitra:
One Size Fits (not) All! De-hyphenating Chechen Nationalism from Kremlins Rhetoric of War on Terror. 223
TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES
Priya Singh:
Comparing Zionism with European Nationalisms. 239
Binoda K. Mishra:
Shivas Children in Prophets Land: The Story of Indians in Malaysia. 257
GENDER AND IDENTITY MOVEMENTS
Charu Gupta:
Gendering Dalit Identities: Retelling National Histories of 1857. 271
Rakhee Bhattacharya:
Identity Consolidation of Meitei Women: Reflections on Womens War. 287
Syed Tanveer Nasreen:
Bengali Muslims at Crossroads: Women and Encounters with Contemporaneity. 301
Book Reviews. 317

Herausgeberin
SWARUPA GUPTA, Ph D. (SOAS, London, 2004) is a Fellow at Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies (Ministry of Culture, Government of India) and Guest Faculty Member, Department of History, Presidency University, Calcutta.

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