At the margins : discourses of development, democracy, and regionalism in Odisha / Jayanta Sengupta.
'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 b...
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Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | '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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199085224 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099154.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 3, 2015) |