Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag /
Jha, Sadan,
Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag / Sadan Jha. - xxvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
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.
"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"--
9781107118874 (hardback : alk. paper)
2015039854
Flags--History.--India
CR115.I4 / J48 2016
929.9 JHA.R
Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag / Sadan Jha. - xxvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
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.
"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"--
9781107118874 (hardback : alk. paper)
2015039854
Flags--History.--India
CR115.I4 / J48 2016
929.9 JHA.R