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Built on nine essays exploring cultural production in India, this book questions which voices, perspectives, and forms of art constitute a national identity.
Who gets to complain about the loss of the idea of India? Whose lament for idyllic India gets recorded?
India at the Limits explores what India looks and feels like via the art, film, and music that are widely amplified in its public sphere. From a dancing body in Manipur to ghost malls doubling up as pleasure zones for poor youth to the spread of Indian cinematic sensibilities in Afghan films, this volume examines the limits, boundaries, and liminal spaces that impact perceptions of what India is and can be both inside and outside its geographic border. Ultimately, readers are able to view India outside of its state-driven formations, offering instead an ecosystem of signs and signposts to ground cultural understanding.
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Table of Contents
Atreyee Majumder
Part One: Space/Place
1. Three Genres of India at the Limit: The Obsolete, the Ruinous, the Unfinished
Atreyee Majumder and Kundan Sen
2. The Haunted Bungalow and the Untimely History of Modern India
Suvendu Ghatak
3. Of Borders and Bordering: The Colonial Himalaya as a Liminal Space
Sandeep Banerjee
Part Two: Art
4. Moving with Encumbrance and (In)Corporeal Knowledge in Manipur
Debanjali Biswas
5. Voicing “Newness”: In Search of “Inclusivity,” “Geography,” and “Globality”
Sebanti Chatterjee
6. Cinephilia, Nostalgic or Melancholy: Space and Film History Inside The Orphanage (2019)
Suvij Sudershan
Part Three: State
7. “Symbolic Destitution” and the Compulsions of the Indian State
Vandana Swami and Vishnupadvi
8. The Foreignness of Law in India's Constitutional Imagination
Moiz Tundawala
9. Tagore's India as a Universal Idea
Salmoli Choudhuri
Afterword: What Flows Beneath the Threshold?
Francis Cody
Product details
| Published | 15 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 246 |
| ISBN | 9798216440970 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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