Colonialism, culture, and resistance /

Panikkar, K. N.

Colonialism, culture, and resistance / K.N. Panikkar. - New Dehli ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xii, 279 p. ; 24 cm. - Oxford India paperbacks . - Oxford India paperbacks . - Oxford India paperbacks. .

Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Colonialism and cultural change --
2. Formation of cultural consciousness --

3. Culture as ideology --


4. Culture in the making of nationalism --



5. Cultural pasts and national identity --




6. The 'great' shoe question : tradition, legitimacy, and power in colonial India --





7. Search for alternatives : meaning of the past in colonial India --






8. Whatever happened to the renaissance in India? --







9. Novel as colonial narrative --








10. Creating a new cultural taste --








11. Indigenous medicine and cultural hegemony --








12. Revolt of Velu Tampi --








13. Agrarian legislation and social classes --









14. Peasant resistance and revolts in Malabar --










15. History textbooks : narratives of religious nationalism












This book discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative modernity in India.

9780198064190 (pbk.) 0198064195 (pbk.)


Political culture
Government, Resistance to
Civilization--South Asia.--South Asia.--South Asia.


South Asia--Colonial influence.

306.205 / PAN

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