• ISBN13: 9780198071624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: August 18, 2011
• Pages: 252
• Original Price: INR 675.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 410 grams

This book offers a comprehensive framework for the study of Indian nationalism. Departing from unidimensional explanations of nationalism, it highlights the role of change and continuity in the making of modern India. Dependence and Disillusionment discusses the emergence of national consciousness in India, a subjective phenomenon, through a variety of objective factors like: the multiple legacies of 1857 the emergence of new classes and political associations, introduction of English education, and social reform the economic impact of taxation and expenditure, famines, 'drain', and swadeshi and political aspects such as racialism, freedom of expression and growth of nationalism. Sudhir Chandra also examines the contradictions and paradoxes latent in the nationalist consciousness. In the new Introduction to this edition he apprises the reader of the current trends and research in the study of nationalism, and the growth and transformation of this consciousness in modern India.

Sudhir Chandra is Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Nantes, France.