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Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag / Sadan Jha.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2016]Description: xxvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107118874 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 929.9 JHA.R 23
LOC classification:
  • CR115.I4 J48 2016
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Book Book Dept. of Political Science General Stacks Dept. of Political Science Non-fiction 929.9 JHA.R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available POL22552

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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