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The goddess and the nation : mapping Mother India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Group identity > Political aspects > India.
Postcolonialism > India.
Mother goddesses > India.
Symbolic anthropology > India.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.