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Performing nationhood : the emotional roots of swadeshi nationhood in Bengal, 1905-12

Title: Performing nationhood : the emotional roots of swadeshi nationhood in Bengal, 1905-12 / Mimasha Pandit.
Author: Pandit, Mimasha
Publication: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Description

xl, 170 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This book serves as the corridor to one's 'self'. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance history of Swadeshi Bengal. The burgeoning public space and audibility of voices hitherto unheard presented a two-way problem, for the colonisers, as well as for the colonised. The thinking mind that hid behind a facade of obedience suddenly appeared before all. The transparent veil separating the hidden from the manifest was torn apart. In the context of swadeshi and boycott agitation, performative spaces like theatre, jatra, and songs did not just serve as a forum for disseminating the notions of nationhood put forward by the intellectuals. The ideas gained a life of their own once they were placed in the performative space. Encompassing both the performer and the audience/recipient of the ideas, the notion underwent a change at various planes of consciousness. The notion of nation, as disseminated by the performances, acquired a different meaning at the level of enactment, and attained an entirely new substance when received by the audience. None of these exchanges occurred in complete passivity of any one party present in the performative space. Consequently, the emergent emotion of nationhood developed as a nuanced image of 'self'. This book has tried to locate the beginning of that emotion of national 'self'.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-163) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available as an e-book.

ISBN

9780199480180
0199480184
9780199099757 (canceled/invalid)
0199099758 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019346370

OCLC

on1111648670
1111648670
SCSB-14400730

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library