The Nation, the State and Indian Identity de Editor-Madhusree Dutta - 1996-12

Some minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. Indian Political History Samya Calcutta 1996 orig.cloth 22x14cm, xii,206 pp. Papers of a seminar organized by Majlis, an organization in Bombay. Contents: Partition and the politics of history / Gyanendra Pandey -- The Rulers and the ruled in Medieval India and VHP’s myth / Ratnabali Chatterjee -- Secularism as identity: the case of Tagore’s Gora / Jasodhara Bagchi -- The Hidden agenda beneath the rhetoric of women’s rights / Flavia Agnes -- The Challenge of communalism to gender issues / Gouri Chowdhury, Shakun and Kalpana Kannabiran -- The People’s movement of self-assertion in the North-East and Kashmir / Nandita Haksar and Gautam Navlakha -- What collapsed with the Babri Masjid: a study of the trade union movement / Vivek Monteiro and Meena Menon.