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At the margins : discourses of development, democracy, and regionalism in Orissa / Jayanta Sengupta.

Title
  1. At the margins : discourses of development, democracy, and regionalism in Orissa / Jayanta Sengupta.
Published by
  1. New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Author
  1. Sengupta, Jayanta (Secretary and curator)

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Description
  1. xiv, 441 pages : maps (black and white); 23 cm
Summary
  1. 'At the Margins' shows how a movement of regional identity was forged in colonial Orissa in the early 20th century, how it related to the politics of Indian nationalism, and how the politics of postcolonial electoral democracy impacted this movement and the politics of Oriya identity. It breaks new ground by examining the themes of regionalism, language-based ethnicity, center-state relations, and the interrelationships between development and democracy across the notional divide of 1947.
Uniform title
  1. University press scholarship online.
Subject
  1. 1900 - 1999
  2. Ethnicity > India > Odisha
  3. Ethnicity
  4. Language and languages
  5. Politics and government
  6. Social conditions
  7. Regionalpolitik
  8. Gruppenidentität
  9. Sprachpolitik
  10. Ethnizität
  11. Kolonialismus
  12. Postkolonialismus
  13. Armut
  14. Marginalität
  15. Politischer Wandel
  16. Ethnicity > India > Orissa
  17. Odisha (India) > Politics and government > 20th century
  18. Odisha (India) > Social conditions > 20th century
  19. Odisha (India) > Languages
  20. India > Orissa
  21. Indien
  22. Orissa
Contents
  1. Social structure and political arithmetic under colonial rule -- Race, culture, language, and 'backwardness': -- writing the Oriya 'people' into the Oriya 'nation,' 1900-20 -- Boundaries, funds, and 'nationalism': towards a separate Orissa Province, 1920-36 -- Congress in the ascendant? The peasant question and 'popular' politics, 1920-47 -- Congress against the rajas: princes, prajamandals, and partition, 1937-49 -- Democracy and its discontents: language, identity, and the cultural politics of 'backwardness' in a postcolonial world -- Ram against Christ? Competing communalisms and patterns of political mobilization -- Conclusion: re-examining cultural nationalism.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-426) and index.
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