Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag / Sadan Jha
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TextPublication details: India Cambridge University Press 2016Description: 268 pISBN: - 9781107118874 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 929.920954 JHA-S
- CR115.I4Â J48 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
Rise of the flag -- Flag on the Hut: totem and a political symbol -- The Indian national flag as a site of daily plebiscite -- Shades of history: a case of saffron colour -- Visualizing an ideal political order -- A post colonial symbol -- Gendered symbol, communal politics -- Epilogue: the flag as a sacred political symbol.
"Charts a history of the national flag of India in colonial and post-colonial periods and looks at the politics that go into the making of various discourses and ways of looking at the Indian national flag"--
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