Nation, Nationalism and Indian Hindi Cinema

Introduction: Nation, Nationalism and Indian Hindi cinema

Goutam Karmakar and Pippa Catterall

1. Invisible reformation: understanding the construction of nation in select Bollywood films

Reema Chakrabarti and Shah Al Mamun Sarkar

2. From domestic guardian to the national militia: the familial, the national and the middle class in 1980s popular Hindi films

Dibyakusum Ray and Pooja Radhakrishnan

3. Historicising the colonial past of India and Hindi cinema

Vikas Pathe

4. Bollywood in the neoliberal era: changing discourses on multiculturalism, terrorism, and nationalism in ‘Dil Se … ’ (1998) and ‘Fanaa’ (2006)

Rajarshi Roy and Manojit Mandal

5. The changing dynamics and othering of Muslims in Bollywood films: rereading Sarfarosh (1999) and New York (2009)

Sk Sagir Ali

6. Reframing nationalism and national identity in Anek

Nishat Haider

7. Politics of apoliticality and the Indian citizen in popular Hindi cinema

Swapna Gopinath

8. Beyond good and evil: imagined nation in Hindi films

Debajyoti Biswas

9. No country for sex workers, then or now: Srijit Mukherji’s Begum Jaan (2017) and its many imagi-nations

Sreejata Paul

10. Leveraging history to invoke nationalism: from the annals of history to social engineering of present and future in Hindi cinema

Jyotsna B. Iyer and Saurabh Das

11. Nation, family and trauma: techno-nationalism and conflicts of loyalty in the Indian Hindi-language espionage thriller Mission Majnu

Goutam Karmakar and Pippa Catterall

12. The changing dynamics of Indian nationalism in contemporary Hindi movies

Rima Bhattacharya

Biography

Goutam Karmakar is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India. He is also an associate member at the Global
South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne, Germany, and an honorary research associate at the Faculty of Arts and Design, Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Karmakar has been awarded several research and visiting fellowships, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), University of Cologne, Germany, and the National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of Education, University of Western Cape, South Africa. Karmakar’s research interests include literature of the Global South, postcolonial and decolonial studies, environmental studies, and cultural studies. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies (published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis group) and also serves as a series editor for the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.

Pippa Catterall is Professor of History and Policy at the School of Humanities at the University of Westminster, UK. She has published extensively on religious, political, constitutional, diplomatic, intelligence, and media history.