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Book Review
Asia
| Manu Goswami. Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space. (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 401. Cloth $50.00, paper $20.00.
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| The question at the heart of the book is an interesting one: how did India get imagined as a territorial unit? Like many studies in recent years, it also aims to defamiliarize the nation to show that it was historically constituted. In this sense, the book does not stand apart. But it does offer a critical history of the nation from a fresh angle. |
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