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Constructing "Post-Colonial" India
National Character and the Doon School
By Sanjay Srivastava
- Price: $180.00
- Binding/Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 978-0-415-17855-6
- Publish Date: October 1st 1998
- Imprint: Routledge
- Pages: 272 pages
Series: Culture and Communication in Asia
Description
An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.