The Construction of History and Nationalism in India by Guichard, Sylvie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Routledge advances in South Asian studies Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations

Introduction

Debate and perspectives NCERT textbooks, their diffusion and influence Thematic, temporal and geographical frames Overview

1 Nation, religion and history

Discourse, nation and nationalism

A discursive conception of the nation and nationalism Modernization, religion and nation Different discourses on the nation in India

2 Textbooks, teachers and students

School and nation-building Teaching and learning in Indian schools

Textbook culture The Indian education system: different types of schools, different textbooks

3 The debate in context

Appointments The new curriculum Censoring the old textbooks The new history textbooks

Plagiarism Omissions Ideological distortions

The return of the Congress and ‘desaffronization’ of education Indian history in California Conclusion

4 Enemies and defenders

Writing Indian history: a struggle for influence

Historiography and power Polarization of positions

The Hindu nationalist discourse

The colonial enemy The communist enemy The Muslim enemy The invasion of alien culture and national pride

The secular nationalist discourse

The defence of secularism and national unity The defence of harmony and tolerance The defence of science and reason

Convergences: modernity, science and the nation-state

History, science and myth History as Bildungsroman of the nation-state

Conclusion

5 Perspectives and silences

Upper caste perspective and urban imaginary

The curriculum and the textbooks The example of Ekal Vidyalayas Urban imaginary, ‘indigenous’ curriculum and local knowledge The absence of Dalits and Adivasis from textbooks

A masculine perspective

Gender and Hindu nationalist discourse Gender and secular nationalist discourse The invisibility of women in school textbooks

Representing the nation-in-history

Proto-nation versus nation-in-the-making Representing continuity Representing Muslims Representing the independence struggle

Conclusion The third set of textbooks as synthesis

General conclusion Notes Bibliography

NCERT textbooks

History textbooks from Set 1 quoted in the text History textbooks from Set 2 quoted in the text Textbook from Gujarat Official documents Press articles Websites Books and journal articles

Index