Constructing Post-Colonial India

National Character and the Doon School

By:

Sanjay Srivastava

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Series:

Culture and Communication in Asia

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The Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys in India, inculcates in its students the notion that to be post-colonial is to be rational, secular and metropolitan. The school numbers many of India's political, social and intellectual elite among its former students; its code of conduct for the modern Indian citizen has been extremely influential. In this detailed study, Sanjay Srivastava digs deep to find the roots of the ideological construction of post-coloniality in India. The Doon School is the site of his analysis but his work ranges far beyond the School itself. He uses historical sources, ethnographic fieldwork and perspectives from cultural theory to question the prevailing theoretical positions of post-colonial studies, arguing that post-coloniality is meaningless unless it is located in historical, social and cultural space.

Author Biography:

Sanjay Srivastava trained as a social anthropologist and is presently senior lecturer in the School of Literary and Communication Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Release date Australia

October 1st, 1998

Author

Sanjay Srivastava

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

272

Series

Culture and Communication in Asia

Dimensions

156x234x15

ISBN-13

9780415178563

Product ID

1679212

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