Shadows at noon the South Asian twentieth century

"This radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region's unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and Pakistan. Taking the partitions of British India rather t...

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Main Author: Chatterji, Joya (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • The age of nationalisms : competing visions
  • Citizenship and nation-building after independence : South Asian experiences
  • The state in South Asia : a biography
  • Migration at home and abroad : South Asian diasporas
  • The household, marriage and the family
  • Fasting, feasting, gluttony and starvation : consumption, caste and the politics of food in South Asia
  • Leisure, twentieth-century style.