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Holy Science : The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism /

"Subramaniam examines how science and religion have come together to propel a vision of the modern Indian nation, and in particular, a Hindu nationalist vision of India. Five illustrative cases of bionationalism animate this book: Hindu nationalist narratives of scientific development, colonial...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Subramaniam, Banu, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In search of India: the inner lives of postcolonialism
  • Avatars for bionationalism: tales from (an)other enlightenment
  • Home and the world: the modern lives of the Vedic sciences
  • Colonial legacies, postcolonial biologies: the queer politics of (un)natural sex
  • Return of the native: nation, nature, and postcolonial environmentalism
  • Biocitizenship in neoliberal times: on the making of the Indian genome
  • Conceiving a Hindu nation: (re)making the Indian womb
  • Avatars for dreamers: narrative's seductive embrace
  • Notes on the mythopoeia
  • Finding India: the afterlives of colonialism.