Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Nationalism as cultural politics; The prehistory of Gandhian nationalism; A tragedy of idealism: utopianism and the imagined community of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj; The making and unmaking of Gandhian ideology: Raja Rao's Kanthapura; An anatomy of Egyptian secular-liberal nationalism; Tawfiq al-Hakim and the dark side of Egyptian secular-liberal nationalist discourse; Naguib Mahfouz, national allegory and neopatriarchy: the Cairo Trilogy; Reflections on nationalism, culture and ideology in India and Egypt; Notes; Index.
Summary
This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms.
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