Ghosh, Amrita, Dasgupta, Rohit 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5837-0088 and Shringarpure, Bhakti
(2024)
India's imperial formations: cultural perspectives.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
ISBN 9781683932994
Abstract
India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and create hegemonic imaginaries of an India that denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together. India is not only home to the world’s largest film industry but also has one of the oldest media ecosystems today with a prolific output in television, radio, print, and digital media. These systems shape hearts and minds in the large nation and also have significant impact in the region as well as in the world due to India’s vast diaspora population. This book argues that Indian culture industries are a crucial site to investigate constructions of Islamophobia, casteism, sinophobia, sexism, colorism and anti-Blackness. Within the work, the authors highlight the urgent need to evaluate the complicity of Indian and diasporic cultural production in perpetuating a casual and sometimes even aggressive normalization of bigotry and discrimination towards minoritized communities. This polemical book is written by three scholars of culture, gender and postcolonial studies providing an accessible yet rigorous study of these issues.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Additional Information: | © 2025 by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2025 14:18 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 14:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126976 |
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