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Paper: The Construction of Indian-Hindu nationalism and Implications of India’s Future as a Postcolonial State
October 29, 2009
<img class=”alignleft” src=”http://www.avivadirectory.com/trivia/india-map-flag.jpg” alt=”" width=”170″ height=”170″ />This paper is a critique of International Relations and an approach to the question of India using an alternative nationalism model. Specifically, this is a Subaltern Studies approach to doing International Relations, which serves the purpose of discarding the notion of India as a homogeneous state unit and elaborating on the contestations involved for the existence of a post-colonial state such as India, as an ‘Other’ in a colonial order.
Quote from the paper:
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!We cannot speak about the need for nuclear non-proliferation without realizing the global coloniality behind it and why nation-states would go against the global norm to define a place for themselves in the global order. We cannot speak about development without realizing the colonial nature of global economic governance. A subaltern perspective, doing history and international relations from below, studying meanings and claims, allows us to explore these issues outside of the limited scope of existing IR theories.
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Categorised under Desi-Indian, Political Theory
