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Building the Idea of India: Conserving Brahmanism and the Brahmanical State? Part II

by rti_adminon April 9, 2016March 20, 20233

Pinak Banik Continued from here. Prof. Habib advances, saying, “a concept of India, politically independent, is already present in 1857. But was it sufficient?”, “something more was needed to turn India from a ‘country’ into a ‘nation’.Two stages seem to me to be very important for such conversion. First of all, there had to …

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Building the Idea of India: Conserving Brahmanism and the Brahmanical State?

by rti_adminon March 6, 2016March 20, 20232

Pinak Banik (This is a three part essay dissecting the much celebrated ‘idea of india’ from an anti-caste perspective, attempting to lay bare the machinations of the Brahminical knowledge producers) Many of us have recently come across a haphazard, yet systematic procession of essays, articles, reports, lectures, coverage, debates broadcast on electronic and print …