| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Contents |
Native travelees -- Nationalism's travelling autobiographies and Indian travelogues -- Travel and modernity -- A strange and uncharted land -- The aporia of Muslim nationalism -- Gandhi's vulnerability -- Gandhi, 'truth' and translatability -- A reluctant admission of the reality of the self |
| Summary |
Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, how the idea of collective life can be drawn from a vison of the individual self, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia. A range of texts is analysed, from autobiographies to travelogues and poetry in English, Urdu and Persian, to show why the political thought of leading Indian nationalist figures and Muslim separatists was decisively articulated in their autobiographical narratives rather than through any other form of writing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-303) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
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Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
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Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir, 1877-1938. Jāvīdnāmah
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| SUBJECT |
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 fast |
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Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 fast |
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Jāvīdnāmah (Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir) fast |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Political aspects -- India
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Nationalism and literature -- India
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Asian history -- India.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 -- India.
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Nationalism -- India.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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History.
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Nationalism and literature
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230286818 |
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023028681X |
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1349540498 |
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9781349540495 |
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