Constructing post-colonial India : national character and the Doon School / Sanjay Srivastava.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Figures and tables
Series editor’s foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the seductions of capital
1 Practical minds, solid builders, and sane opinions
2 The marble mirage: constructing the Orient
3 The garden of rational delights
4 Secularism, the citizen, and Hindu contextualism
5 The management of water: capitalism, class, and science
6 The order of men: sentiments of the metropolis, settlements of civil society
7 Conclusion: ‘post-coloniality’, national identity, globalisation, and the simulacra of the real
Appendix 1
Donors to the IPSS prior to June 1936
Appendix 2
Foundation members of the IPSS, 1936
Notes
Bibliography

An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.