Making India
Description
India Today is almost completely unrecognizable from what it was the eve of is the colonial conquest A sovereign nation with a teeming industrious population it is an economic powerhouse and the worlds largest democracy The question is how did it get to where it is now Covering the period from 1800 to 1950 this study of about a dozen makers of modern India is a valuable addition to India s cultural and intellectual history More specifically it shows how through the very act of writing often in English Indian society was radically reconfigured Writing itself became endowed with a charismatic...
ISBN(s)
9381506310, 9789381506318
