Region, Nation,

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This book interrogates Uttar Pradesh’s identity as India’s “heartland” and unravels the historical processes that have it argues that UP’s existence as a “region” cannot be taken uncritically as a given, considering the complex and divergent traditions that have been constituent of the state. It makes the case that UP has been imagined in multiple ways and explores five such distinct, thought overlapping, constructions through its modern history: UP as a “colonial heartland”, as a “nationalist heartland”, as a “Hindu heartland”, as a “Muslim heartland”, and finally as a “postcolonial heartland”. The book closely examines UP’s transformation from a colonial to a postcolonial society, looking at issues of identities, mobilization and governance. With its size, location and demography, UP has occupied a distinct position within India’s body politic. In the last two decades, the state has seen dramatic political change, marked by fragmentation along lines of religion, region, class and caste. Region, Nation, “Heartland” offers insights into factors that lie behind this social and political churning, which promises to transform not just UP, but India itself. The book offers a fresh perspective into the dynamics of how “regions” have contributed to the projects of sate and nation-building in South Asia. Imaginatively written and drawing upon massive archival research, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern history, political science and those with a serious interest in contemporary South Asia.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gyanesh Kudaisya

Gyanesh Kudaisya teaches in the South Asian Studies Programme of the National University of Singapore. He was educated at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and obtained a doctorate from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, and has taught in the School of Arts of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has also held visiting research appointments at the Asia Research Institute, Singapore, and the Australian National University, canberra. He has researched in the areas of the colonial and contemporary South Asian history and has co-authored, the Aftermath of Partition in South Asia (2000).

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Title
Region, Nation,
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8178297035
Length
xxvi+471p., Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
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