Nationalism and poverty: discourses of development and culture in 20th century India.

This paper interrogates the terms 'developmental nationalism' and 'cultural nationalism' to conclude that, because developmental nationalisms always have cultural elements and cultural nationalisms, developmental ones, the precise, and varied, meanings of 'development' and 'culture' demand careful s...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Third World Quarterly Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 429 - 446
Autor principal: Sarkar, Sumit
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2008
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=31747807&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 31747807
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        01436597
        TWQ
      jtl: Third World Quarterly
      issn: 01436597
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: Apr2008
      vid: 29
      iid: 3
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    artinfo:
      ui:
        31747807
        10.1080/01436590801931421
      ppf: 429
      ppct: 17
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 145KB
      tig:
        atl: Nationalism and poverty: discourses of development and culture in 20th century India.
      aug:
        au: Sarkar, Sumit
        affil: Department of History, University of Delhi, and can be reached at 250 Mandakini Enclave, New Delhi, 110019, India
      su:
        Nationalism
        Cultural nationalism
        Cultural identity
        Politics & culture
        Practical politics
        Poverty
        Economic development
        Religious communities
        India
      sug:
        subj:
          India
          Nationalism
          Cultural nationalism
          Cultural identity
          Politics & culture
          Practical politics
          Poverty
          Economic development
          Religious communities
      ab: This paper interrogates the terms 'developmental nationalism' and 'cultural nationalism' to conclude that, because developmental nationalisms always have cultural elements and cultural nationalisms, developmental ones, the precise, and varied, meanings of 'development' and 'culture' demand careful scrutiny, as do the shifting proportions of their combinations in different ideological - political formations and in the confrontations and partial accommodations between, and across, diverse nationalist traditions. The central argument is that we might get a better purchase on the developmental/cultural nationalism transition in the Indian case in juxtaposition with the problematic of poverty. Indian intellectuals turning towards self-conscious nationalism often placed the poverty of the country at the heart of their nationalism, making it basically a critique and the nation still in need of 'making' or constitution. The alternative has been to project the nation (or, with votaries of 'communal' politics - religious communities, Hindu or Muslim) as in every case an always already established glorious entity, with a resplendent history and culture, free of blemishes other than those imposed by external invasion or domination. Through four sets of case studies of these opposing traditions at four moments in the history of modern India, the focus here is on degrees of fetishisation of the nation, and their consequences in terms of the strengthening, or subversion, of hierarchies and power relations.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Copyright of Third World Quarterly is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
      item: Third World Quarterly
      holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2008
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N