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    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    15 August 2026
    30 November 2026
    ISBN:
    9781009596947
    9781009596909
    9781009596930
    Open access funder:
    Max Weber Stiftung
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    Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.6kg, 332 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    332 Pages
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To mark the 75th year of India's birth as a republic, Knowledge/Nation brings together reflections on how the social sciences and allied interdisciplinary fields have evolved in the country, and where we can go from here. It explores how India has figured as an object of knowledge and a site of critical reflection in the last hundred years. The volume presents wide coverage – not only narrating the evolution of history, politics, economics, literature etc. in context of changing democratic debates but also asks difficult questions, such as why religious studies never came centre-stage in the academy even though religion remained salient in public debates, how gender studies, film studies and Dalit studies emerged out of demands from outside the academy and whether environmental studies can be framed by the nation at all, given the planetary-scale of the climate crisis. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-vi
  • Dedication
    pp vii-viii
  • Contents
    pp ix-x
  • Acknowledgements
    pp xi-xii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-25
  • 1 - History Wars
    pp 26-46
  • 2 - Economic Knowledge and the ‘Indian’ Economy
    pp 47-85
  • 3 - State, Democracy, and Modernity in Postcolonial India
    pp 86-110
  • 4 - The Curious Case of ‘Indian’ Literature
    pp 111-134
  • 5 - Unschooled Knowledge from Ancestral Spirits
    pp 135-160
  • 6 - Documenting the Self
    pp 161-182
  • 7 - Feminism at the Crossroads?
    pp 183-210
  • 8 - Dalit Studies and the Life of the Mind
    pp 211-234
  • 9 - ‘Heathen’ to Vishwa-Guru
    pp 235-258
  • 10 - Past Politics and Future Environments
    pp 259-287
  • 11 - India in Film Studies
    pp 288-318
  • About the Contributors
    pp 319-321
  • Index
    pp 322-340

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