ABSTRACT
Of all the seductions capital could offer post-coloniality, that of a new cultural identity was perhaps the most sumptuous. And, with further largesse, the combined enterprise between capital and post-coloniality hummed the incantatory tones of an additional promise: the manufacture of the immortal community, the nation. This book seeks to explore the cultural elaboration in the Indian context of certain cross-cultural phenomena of our time: it is concerned with the minutiae of post-coloniality in general, and the ‘nation-building’ project in particular. The underlying analytical focus is the manner of articulation of a regime of post-colonial capital with the cultural-politics of postcoloniality.
