Community, gender and violence / edited by Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jaganathan. - viii, 347 pages ; 23 cm. - Subaltern studies ; 11 . - Subaltern studies ; 11. .

"The essays collected in this volume were presented at the Fifth Subaltern Studies Conference held in Colombo in June 1995"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A greater story-writer than God : genre, gender and minority in late colonial India / Aamir R. Mufti -- A space for violence : anthropology, politics and the location of a Sinhala practice of masculinity / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Embodying the self : feminism, sexual violence and the law / Nivedita Menon -- Women, marriage, and the subordination of rights / Flavia Agnes -- Nationalism refigured : contemporary South Indian cinema and the subject of feminism / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Hegemonic spatial strategies : the nation-space and Hindu communalism in twentieth-century India / Satish Deshpande -- Constituting the nation, contesting nationalism : the southern Tamil (woman) and separatist Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka / Qadri Ismail -- Toleration and historical traditions of difference / David Scott -- Discussion : an afterword on the new subaltern / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947
India--Social conditions

DS331 / .C66 2000

954.035