Reverence, resistance and politics of seeing the Indian national flag /

Charts a history of the national flag of India in colonial and post-colonial periods and looks at the politics that go into the making of various discourses and ways of looking at the Indian national flag.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jha, Sadan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Rise of the flag
  • Flag on the Hut: totem and a political symbol
  • The Indian national flag as a site of daily plebiscite
  • Shades of history: a case of saffron colour
  • Visualizing an ideal political order
  • A post colonial symbol
  • Gendered symbol, communal politics
  • Epilogue: the flag as a sacred political symbol.