The Limits of Derivative Nationalism

Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Question of Tamil Nationalism

Bibliographic Data

ID7095037
AuthorsRavi Vaitheespara (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume24
Issue1
Pages87-105
Publication date2011-12-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRethinking Marxism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08935696.2012.635040
OpenAlexW2008857859
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

Indian’ postcolonial writings continue to have a significant impact on contemporary scholarly approaches to nationalism in the subcontinent, and have helped displace the hold of earlier left/liberal approaches to nationalism. While the impact of these recent postcolonial trends on Indian historiography more broadly has been the subject of considerable scholarly discussions and debates, less attention has been devoted to their specific impact on scholarly approaches to nationalism. Through a close and critical reading of the changing historical approaches to ‘minority’ Tamil nationalism in the subcontinent as well as through comparison of such postcolonial perspectives with that of ‘anticolonial’ national liberation theorists such as Frantz Fanon, this essay seeks to offer a historical perspective on the strengths and limitations of the currently ascendant ‘Indian’ postcolonial perspectives on nationalism

Aesthetics · Historiography · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · Tamil · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Economic Development in India

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