India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches

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India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives. With nine contributions by a range of international scholars, it interrogates 1947 and its complex, bloody aftermath in historical, political and aesthetic terms. This original collection conceives of Indian independence in bold and innovative ways by moving across national boundaries and disciplinary, geopolitical and linguistic landscapes; and by examining a wealth of under-researched primary material, both recent and historical. India at 70 is a unique and indispensable contribution to Indian history, literary and cultural studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures List of contributors Introduction: Framing India at 70 Political and historical context: At home and abroad Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity Volume organisation Past and present: Political and social landscapes Old and new: Cultural and aesthetic interventions Note Works cited Part I Political and historical context: At home and abroad Chapter 1 The making of the New Kashmir manifesto Works cited Chapter 2 Half-widows and the travesty of justice in Indian-administered Kashmir Historical background The problem and politics of unknowability Violence of injustice and national security politics Works cited Chapter 3 The RSS’s ‘Village Republics’ I II III IV V Acknowledgement Works cited Chapter 4 Cartooning politics: Reading the Daily Mail, Dawn and Hindustan Times Ahmed, Dawn and Azad Illingworth, the Daily Mail and Indian politics Shankar and the Quaid Works cited Part II Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity Chapter 5 The experience of the Left cultural movement in India: 1942 to the present Notes Works cited Chapter 6 Contested natures and tribal identities: Regional nationalism as ethnography – rereading Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji Blooms Works cited Chapter 7 Material memory and the Partition of India: A narrative interview with Aanchal Malhotra Chapter 8 Thinking gender in 21st-century India: Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back Notes Works cited Index