India's Imperial Formations

Auteur

Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor in South Asian literatures in the Department of English at University of Central Florida.

Rohit K Dasgupta is associate professor in gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Bhakti Shringarpure is co-founder of the Radical Books Collective and an independent scholar.

Texte du rabat

India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together.

Résumé
India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together.

Contenu

Introduction: India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives

Chapter 1: The Cultural Industries of India: Imperial & Critical Contexts

Chapter 2: Imperial Cinematic Imaginations: Bollywood's Race Problem

Chapter 3: "We Love America": Imperial Indian Diaspora on Television

Chapter 4: Metanarratives of Nation: Race, Caste and Religion