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Author Ramaswamy, Sumathi.

Title The goddess and the nation : mapping Mother India / Sumathi Ramaswamy
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 379 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Prologue : yearning for form -- Formal concerns -- Other women, other mothers -- Vande mataram -- Enshrining the map of India -- Between men, map, and mother -- Daughters of India -- Epilogue : pictorial history in the age of the world picture
Summary A history of the evolving idea of India in the 20th century, as seen through visual representations of the goddess Mother India
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Group identity -- Political aspects -- India
Postcolonialism -- India
Mother goddesses -- India
Symbolic anthropology -- India
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Group identity -- Political aspects.
Mother goddesses.
Postcolonialism.
Symbolic anthropology.
Religion -- Nation -- Indien.
Nation -- Religion -- Indien.
Nationalismus -- Indien.
India.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822391531
0822391538
1283065177
9781283065177
9786613065179
661306517X