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The Order of Men: the Nation and the Metropolitan Imaginary at an Indian Public School
Author(s) -
Srivastava Sanjay
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
the australian journal of anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1757-6547
pISSN - 1035-8811
DOI - 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1993.tb00174.x
Subject(s) - modernity , secularism , citizenship , the imaginary , rationality , narrative , gender studies , colonialism , sociology , metropolitan area , nation state , order (exchange) , state (computer science) , islam , political science , history , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , psychology , archaeology , finance , algorithm , computer science , economics , psychotherapist
This article is concerned with exploring discursive constructions of Indian post‐coloniality and modernity. The analysis focuses upon a fully residential boys school in North India, the Doon School, which has played a historically significant role in the production of a discourse on nationhood and citizenship. Elsewhere, I have argued that the School defines its citizenship project in terms of three main ‘imaginaries’: secularism, rationality, and ‘metropolitanism’. This paper explores the construction of a narrative of the post‐colonial nation‐state at the School through ‘metropolitanism’.