CHAPTER 9
Nationalism: Perspectives and Contestations
Pushpa Singh and Meena Kumari
Reader’s Guide
The purpose of this chapter to analyse the idea of nation and nationalism through a variety of connotations available in the intellectual arena. Generally, any discussion on nationalism tends to focus primarily on the European discourse, however, the discussion here will include diverse perspectives emerging from different parts of the world like Mahatma Gandhi in India, Mao Zedong in China, Fratz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral from Africa. All these figures and many others have played crucial role in enthusing anti-colonial and nationalist sentiments in erstwhile colonies in the post-Second World War period. In context of the colonised countries, ...
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