The Oxford Literary Review Volume 16: On India: Writing History Culture Post-coloniality

The essays include: reflections on the partition of India; partition narratives & otehr genres of the passive revolution; the cinematic imagining of a new society in 1950s India; growing up inter/national in Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines'; gender crisis & national identity Bankimchandra & the impossibility of a political agenda; Saidian frameworks in the writing of modern Indian history; perceptions of the nation & community in contemporary India; the slogan as a metaphor of cultural interrogation.