India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives. With nine contributions by a range of international scholars, it interrogates 1947 and its complex, bloody aftermath in historical, political and aesthetic terms. This original collection conceives of Indian independence in bold and innovative ways by moving across national boundaries and disciplinary, geopolitical and linguistic landscapes; and by examining a wealth of under-researched primary material, both recent and historical. India at 70 is a unique and indispensable contribution to Indian history, literary and cultural studies.
Author(s): Ruth Maxey (editor), Paul McGarr (editor)
Series: (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 148
Tags: Indian Freedom Struggle, Indian History, India,
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction: Framing India at 70
Political and historical context: At home and abroad
Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity
Volume organisation
Past and present: Political and social landscapes
Old and new: Cultural and aesthetic interventions
Note
Works cited
Part I Political and historical context: At home and abroad
Chapter 1 The making of the New Kashmir manifesto
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Chapter 2 Half-widows and the travesty of justice in Indian-administered Kashmir
Historical background
The problem and politics of unknowability
Violence of injustice and national security politics
Works cited
Chapter 3 The RSS’s ‘Village Republics’
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IV
V
Acknowledgement
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Chapter 4 Cartooning politics: Reading the Daily Mail, Dawn and Hindustan Times
Ahmed, Dawn and Azad
Illingworth, the Daily Mail and Indian politics
Shankar and the Quaid
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Part II Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity
Chapter 5 The experience of the Left cultural movement in India: 1942 to the present
Notes
Works cited
Chapter 6 Contested natures and tribal identities: Regional nationalism as ethnography – rereading Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji Blooms
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Chapter 7 Material memory and the Partition of India: A narrative interview with Aanchal Malhotra
Chapter 8 Thinking gender in 21st-century India: Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back
Notes
Works cited
Index
