The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India

History

Pandey, Gyanendra

Asia

Oxford University Press

In colonialist writing, "communalism" is a concept that stands for the puerile and the primitive--for all that colonialism itself, in its own reckoning, was not. It is therefore paradoxical that the use of this concept has been propagated, more than anyone else, by nationalists and opponents of colonialism. In this radically new analysis of the problem of communalism in India, the author therefore has as much to say about nationalism as about colonialism. He argues that both these concepts are products of the Age of Colonialism, of Reason, and of Capital. His investigation of communalism is part of a larger exercise aimed at understanding the construction of Indian society and politics as a whole in recent times.

Construction of Communalism In Colonial India

This new edition containing a preface and afterword, is a part of a larger exercise aimed at understanding the construction of Indian society, and politics as a whole in recent times by challenging the conventional analysis of communalism and providing alternative theoretical cues to grasp its nature and dynamics.

This new edition containing a preface and afterword, is a part of a larger exercise aimed at understanding the construction of Indian society, and politics as a whole in recent times by challenging the conventional analysis of communalism and providing alternative theoretical cues to grasp its nature and dynamics.

This Omnibus brings together seminal writings of distinguished academician, Gyanendra Pandey, made up of three books.   The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1920-40 investigates the social contradictions, class forces, and efforts at political mobilization in Uttar Pradesh.   The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, charts out the history of the term communalism and the politics and attitudes it seeks to encapsulate. The second edition updates the discussion on communalism in a postcolonial world.   Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India analyses questions of history and memory, the nationalization of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered.

The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus: Comprising The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; ... Violence, Nationalism, and History in India

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

This is a radically new analysis of communalism along with nationalism and colonialism. It is a part of a larger exercise aimed at understanding the construction of Indian society, and politics in recent times by challenging the conventional analysis of communalism and providing alternative theoretical cues to grasp its nature and dynamics. The book also explores how nationalism and communalism are constructed out of shared as well as contested experiences and out of common and mutually contradictory visions and struggles. It is a milestone in contemporary debates on nationalist policies and modern political communities. Given the worldwide resurgence of religious nationalism and communalism, this new edition reopens many of the questions signalled in the first edition and carries the discussion forward. The centenary edition contains a new Foreword. This book will be an important reading for scholars, teachers, and students of modern Indian history. It will also interest sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists.

The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, Third Edition (Oxford India Perennials)

Self-Help

Success

Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 7)

Gyan Pandey's latest book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the partition of India in 1947, and how the preceding events have been documented. In the process, the author provides a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. He also investigates how local forms of community are established by the way in which violent events are remembered and written about. The book will be of interest to historians of South Asia, to sociologists and to anyone concerned with the Indian subaltern story.

Cambridge University Press

Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices―the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the "real" histories of a nation; how the "sacred" nation, and its ("mainstream") culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this. This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times. No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Stanford University Press

Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices―the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the "real" histories of a nation; how the "sacred" nation, and its ("mainstream") culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this. This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times. No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

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The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India

Construction of Communalism In Colonial India

The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India

The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India

The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus: Comprising The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; ... Violence, Nationalism, and History in India

The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, Third Edition (Oxford India Perennials)

Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 7)

Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 7)

Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present)