Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgements xi
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Nationalism as Cultural Politics 15
• 2 - The Prehistory of Gandhian Nationalism 44
• 3 - A Tragedy of Idealism: Utopianism and the Imagined Community of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj 71
• 4 - The Making and Unmaking of Gandhian Ideology: Raja Rao's Kanthapura 104
• 5 - An Anatomy of Egyptian Secular-Liberal Nationalism 141
• 6 - Tawfiq Al-Hakim and the Dark Side of Egyptian Secular-Liberal Nationalist Discourse 169
• 7 - Naguib Mahfouz, National Allegory and Neopatriarchy: the Cairo Trilogy 200
• 8 - Reflections on Nationalism, Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt 237
• Notes 245
• Index 283