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The goddess and the nation : mapping Mother India

Title
  1. The goddess and the nation : mapping Mother India / Sumathi Ramaswamy.
Published by
  1. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Author
  1. Ramaswamy, Sumathi.

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Description
  1. xix, 379 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 27 cm.
Subject
  1. Symbolic anthropology > India
  2. Postcolonialism > India
  3. Group identity > Political aspects > India
  4. Mother goddesses > India
Contents
  1. Prologue : yearning for form -- Formal concerns -- Other women, other mothers -- Vande mataram -- Enshrining the map of India -- Between men, map, and mother -- Daughters of India -- Epilogue : pictorial history in the age of the world picture.
Call number
  1. JFF 10-394
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Ramaswamy, Sumathi.
Title
  1. The goddess and the nation : mapping Mother India / Sumathi Ramaswamy.
Imprint
  1. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2009044003
ISBN
  1. 9780822345923 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0822345927 (cloth : alk. paper)
  3. 9780822346104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  4. 0822346109 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFF 10-394
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