TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jha,Sadan
TI  - Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag
SN  - 9781107118874 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - CR115.I4 J48 2016
U1  - 929.9 JHA.R 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Flags
KW  - India
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -