Srirupa Roy offers fresh innovative and highly original perspectives on howthe Indian nationstate set out to manufacture a national modernity and newways of pre... » 

Srirupa Roy offers fresh innovative and highly original perspectives on howthe Indian nationstate set out to manufacture a national modernity and newways of presenting itself. This is a much needed contribution to a criticalassessment of the now quasimythical Nehruvian decades of postcolonial stateformation from one of the best political scientists writing on India today.Thomas Blom Hansen University of Amsterdam «