TY - CHAP
T1 - Ur-national and secular mythologies
T2 - Popular culture, nationalist historiography and strategic essentialism
AU - Mehta, Rini Bhattacharya
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - This essay examines the dynamic between nationalist historiography and popular cultural forms in postcolonial and post-global India. Concerned primarily with liberal nationalist historiography, particularly the kind that has been labelled the ‘Tagore-Nehru synthesis’, this essay traces the evolution of the said historiography during the colonial-nationalist period, examines the interaction of this historiography with contesting discourses in postcolonial and post-global India and, in doing so, attempts to address the questions regarding the modes of coexistence of religion and nationalism in a secular nation-state.
AB - This essay examines the dynamic between nationalist historiography and popular cultural forms in postcolonial and post-global India. Concerned primarily with liberal nationalist historiography, particularly the kind that has been labelled the ‘Tagore-Nehru synthesis’, this essay traces the evolution of the said historiography during the colonial-nationalist period, examines the interaction of this historiography with contesting discourses in postcolonial and post-global India and, in doing so, attempts to address the questions regarding the modes of coexistence of religion and nationalism in a secular nation-state.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780203720707-8
DO - 10.4324/9780203720707-8
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84919549839
SN - 9780415556187
SN - 9780415754804
T3 - Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
SP - 116
EP - 132
BT - South Asian Transnationalisms
A2 - Sinha, Babli
PB - Routledge
ER -