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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 111–141.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Anustup Basu This essay is a wide-ranging inquiry into an early and consistent monotheistic impulse in Hindu nationalist discourses and identity formation since the late nineteenth century. It argues that the consolidation of a pan-Indian Hindu demographic and religious identity, cutting across...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 67–86.
Published: 01 August 2011
... to understanding how it became so central to defining Hinduism itself. Although tolerance is offered as a constitutive or perennial aspect of Hinduism's religious tradition, its prominence in Hinduism's self-description is actually of recent vintage. In the independent Indian nation-state, the dominance...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 105–135.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Rochona Majumdar What changes in our understanding of Indian films when we treat the song sequence as a separate medium situated both within and outside the film text? I argue for treating the song text as operating simultaneously on multiple levels, both within the film and in its afterlife...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 239–250.
Published: 01 August 2008
... beginnings of Hindu nationalism in the latter half of the nineteenth century there has been an effort to “monothematize” a pan-Indian Hindu identity. That is, in the absence of an axiomatic church of “Hinduism,” there was a literary-modern effort to telescope myriad devotional traditions, eclectic beliefs...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Manisha Basu This essay reads exemplary instances of the fictional work of Indian novelist R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) as expressions of critical anachronism in a world literary marketplace that, despite claiming diversity as a global, even transcendental, value, remains committed to both...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 99–131.
Published: 01 August 2008
... Hall, among others, at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Study in the UK; and research generated by the Indian Subaltern Studies group are testimonials to Gramsci's ongoing legacy. These texts followed Gramsci in performing a multifaceted examination of language, political, and social...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 1–38.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Marc Nichanian “On the Archive III: The Secret” offers an extended commentary on Borges’s short story “The Ethnographer” and instigates a philosophical encounter between Borges and Derrida. As he carries on his fieldwork, Fred Murdock steals the “secret” of the Indian tribe he studies. He...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Leah Feldman; Aamir R. Mufti Abstract “The Returns of Fascism” addresses the emergence of New Right political culture on a global scale, attending to the intersections in US, European, Russian, and Indian New Right movements and their relation to the history of fascisms and late capitalist thought...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., puzzling term: bastard sugar , the “impure” sugar left after many boilings. Its brief role in the age of emancipation, and the crisis that emancipation posed for West Indian sugar, raise questions about the relationship between racialization, value, and legitimacy in the New World. Guided by the thought...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 101–138.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Hannah . 1972 . Crises of the Republic . New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . Burton Antoinette . 2011 . Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Calloway Colin . 1995 . American Revolution in Indian...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 47–80.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Mark Rifkin Duke University Press 2005 Representing the Cherokee Nation:
Subaltern Studies and Native American Sovereignty
Mark Rifkin
In ‘‘American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story Eliza...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 201–225.
Published: 01 May 2005
... addressed a group of nationalists assembled at Cal-
cutta University. He began by charting the familiar lines of his opposition to
what he had elsewhere called the mechanistic ‘‘logic of the Nation 1 Blinded
by the ‘‘dust storm of modern history Indian nationalists had succumbed
to the global ‘‘hunger...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 159–176.
Published: 01 May 2006
... at an understanding of the narrative
strategies at work in the Hindi melodrama of the 1950s in relation to an
Indian public sphere. Film historians have settled for a generic definition that
views melodrama as a genre that ‘‘record[s] the struggle of a morally and
emotionally emancipated bourgeois consciousness...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 219–221.
Published: 01 August 2014
... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Contributors
Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters
at Cornell University, where he teaches American literatures, American Indian lit-
eratures, and federal Indian law. In addition to three books...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 165–205.
Published: 01 February 2023
...; repeated outbreaks of interreligious conflict; organized acts of mass pogrom-like violence. The most visible sign of these transformations is the rise to prominence and power of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party; BJP), whose current stint of national power started in 2014, but they have...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 25–47.
Published: 01 February 2004
... conveniently removed Native
American rights to their native lands, and it is not surprising that under this
new dispensation, the Indian should replace the feudal/Catholic other as the
demon of American gothic. ‘‘The gothic as Fiedler suggests, ‘‘had been
invented to deal with the past and with history...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 245–274.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of lyric poetry, and in particular the ghazal form, became the site
of fierce contention about the prospects of a distinct ‘‘Muslim’’ experience in
Indian modernity. The poetry of Faiz exemplifies the unique relationship of
Urdu literary production to the crisis of Indian national culture that is marked...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 197–218.
Published: 01 May 2004
... oeuvre: the stalking of the novel in English by ver-
nacular Indian fiction. This ‘‘other’’ archive—a phrase I use deliberately to
capture Ghosh’s ongoing historiographic projects—that shadows his novels
generates what can only be called a hauntological literary oeuvre.
Here I speak...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 203–234.
Published: 01 May 2006
... in killing as many as they
can, as is done in the parts about Malaca by those whom they call
amoucos in the language of the countryDiogo de Couto, Dialogo
do Soldado Pratico, 1790, 2nd part p. 9.
—Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Phrases of Kindred
Terms...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 211–222.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Indian thinkers—from Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar to Bimal Krishna Matilal and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan to Jay Dubashi and Chetan Bhagat—alongside European thought on fascism and the Orientalist project. “The modern project of Hindu political monotheism,” argues Basu, “has been...
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