Book section · May 13, 2022
This chapter focuses on two goddesses who put in an appearance in late colonial India - Tamilttay (Mother Tamil), and Bharat Mata (Mother India). It also focuses on some of these contradictions, inspired by Sudipta Kaviraj's observation. The chapter argues ...
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Book section · January 2013
Focused on the colonial school in the British India as the principal site for disciplined encounters between the learning child and the terrestrial globe as a scientific instrument, this essay considers the work of Geography in transforming young Indians i ...
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Book section · 2008
Considers the appearance of cartographic imagery in the form of maps and globes in the so-called god pictures that are such a ubiquitous feature of poular Indian visual culture of the past century. A special focus is on tracking the transformations through ...
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Book section · 2005
Considers the spatial imagination around a lost continent in the Indian ocean imagined as a disappeared homeland of the Tamil peoples. ...
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