TY - BOOK AU - Kaviraj,Sudipta TI - Imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas SN - 9780231152228 AV - JA84.I4 K4 2010 U1 - 306.20954 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Political science KW - India KW - Philosophy KW - Nationalism KW - Postcolonialism KW - Social conditions KW - 1947- KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; On state, society, and discourse in India -- On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony -- On the structure of nationalist discourse -- Writing, speaking, being: language and the historical formation of identities in India -- The imaginary institution of India -- A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India -- Government and opposition: fifty years of Indian independence -- The reversal of orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the project of indigenist social theory ER -