India's Imperial Formations

Name: India's Imperial Formations
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Cultural Perspectives

By: Amrita Ghosh, Rohit Dasgupta, Bhakti Shringarpure

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Hardcover | 15 March 2025

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148 Pages

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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 authorshighlight 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.

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Scholarly discussions of political theology are broadening in productive ways, and Steven Lane's work contributes to this movement. Lane asks: what would it mean to shift the focus of political-theological analysis from singular sovereign to bureaucracy? To answer this question, he engages with social and political theory, from Max Weber to Wendy Brown, as well as with our contemporary political landscape, from the pandemic to mass incarceration. The book will give Christian social ethicists much to ponder.

--Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University

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