Contents

Introduction

1. On State, Society, and Discourse in India

2. On the Construction of Colonial Power: Structure, Discourse, Hegemony

3. On the Structure of Nationalist Discourse

4. Writing, Speaking, Being: Language and the Historical Formation of Identities in India

5. The Imaginary Institution of India

6. A State of Contradictions: The Post-colonial State in India

7. Government and Opposition: Fifty Years of Indian Independence

8. The Reversal of Orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the Project of Indigenist Social Theory

Index