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The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India

The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India

Ramaswamy, Sumathi

Hardcover

Indian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 0822345927
ISBN13: 9780822345923
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 9 2010
Pages: 400
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.30 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, Mother India, the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country's diverse communities. Soon after Mother India's emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they produced enabled patriotic men and women in a heterogeneous population to collectively visualize India, affectively identify with it, and even become willing to surrender their lives for it. Filled with illustrations, including 100 in color, The Goddess and the Nation draws on visual studies, gender studies, and the history of cartography to offer a rigorous analysis of Mother India's appearance in painting, print, poster art, and pictures from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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