Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-426) and index.
Contents:
Social structure and political arithmetic under colonial rule -- Race, culture, language, and 'backwardness' : writing the Oriya 'people' into the Oriya 'nation,' 1900-20 -- Boundaries, funds, and 'nationalism' : towards a separate Orissa Province, 1920-36 -- Congress in the ascendant? : the peasant question and 'popular' politics, 1920-47 -- Congress against the Rajas : princes, prajamandals, and partition, 1937-49 -- Democracy and its discontents : language, identity, and the cultural politics of 'backwardness' in a postcolonial world -- Ram against Christ? : competing communalisms and patterns of political mobilization -- Conclusion : re-examining cultural nationalism.
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