TY - JOUR
T1 - Ram, Chatterjee, and the Georgian feast
T2 - Reading the national against the grain
AU - Gyan, Prakash
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Gyan Prakash accepts the interpretation of the cosmopolitan origins of the supra as formulated in the article by Harsha Ram, but criticizes Ram’s reliance on Partha Chatterjee’s idea of the “spiritual” domain of the nation as some preexisting condition preceding colonization. Prakash suggests that Chatterjee merely reproduces the nationalist discourse by reestablishing dichotomies such as inner/outer, spiritual/material, and capital/community and placing them outside the sphere of modernity. Prakash insists that in the Indian tradition these notions were thoroughly elaborated and pondered in relation to modernity. He accuses Chatterjee and, by extension, Ram of failing to acknowledge the implications of the hybrid origins of those dichotomies. Prakash claims that when Chatterjee is read via Homi Bhabha, the nationalist “inner” and “spiritual” turn out to be constructed from a hybrid formation much like the supra.
AB - Gyan Prakash accepts the interpretation of the cosmopolitan origins of the supra as formulated in the article by Harsha Ram, but criticizes Ram’s reliance on Partha Chatterjee’s idea of the “spiritual” domain of the nation as some preexisting condition preceding colonization. Prakash suggests that Chatterjee merely reproduces the nationalist discourse by reestablishing dichotomies such as inner/outer, spiritual/material, and capital/community and placing them outside the sphere of modernity. Prakash insists that in the Indian tradition these notions were thoroughly elaborated and pondered in relation to modernity. He accuses Chatterjee and, by extension, Ram of failing to acknowledge the implications of the hybrid origins of those dichotomies. Prakash claims that when Chatterjee is read via Homi Bhabha, the nationalist “inner” and “spiritual” turn out to be constructed from a hybrid formation much like the supra.
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U2 - 10.1353/imp.2014.0103
DO - 10.1353/imp.2014.0103
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84925970295
SN - 2166-4072
VL - 2014
SP - 81
EP - 84
JO - Ab Imperio
JF - Ab Imperio
IS - 4
ER -