Colonialism, Culture, and Resistance

by Panikkar

Overview

This unique collection discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative modernity in India. It also provides an engaging account of the development of political and cultural consciousness in the subcontinent. Investigating three areas of resistance--armed uprising, intellectual dissent, and cultural protest--K.N. Panikkar argues that they were informed by a vision of a condition beyond colonialism in which tradition and modernity selectively, but creatively came together.

Based on a variety of sources, in both English and regional languages, this volume would interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, sociology, and anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198064190
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

K.N. Panikkar is Vice Chairman, Higher Education Council Kerala & Chairman, Kerala Council of Historical Research

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction;
1. Colonialism and Cultural Change;
2. . Formation of Cultural Consciousness;
3. . Culture as Ideology;
4. . Culture in the Making of Nationalism;
5. Cultural Pasts and National Identity;
6. The 'Great' Shoe Question: Tradition, Legitimacy, and Power in Colonial India;
7. Search for Alternatives: The Meaning of the Past in Colonial India;
8. Whatever Happened to the Renaissance in India?
9. Novel as Colonial Narrative;
10. Creating a New Cultural Taste;
11. Indigenous Medicine and Cultural Hegemony;
12. The Revolt of Velu Tampi;
13. . Agrarian Legislation and Social Classes;
14. Peasant Resistance and Revolts in Malabar;
15. History Textbooks: Narratives of Religious Nationalism;
Glossary; Index