Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity

• Introduction 1. Nationalism as Cultural Politics 2. The Prehistory of Gandhian Nationalism 3. A Tragedy of Idealism: Utopianism and the Imagined Community of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj 4. The Making and Unmaking of Gandhian Ideology: Raja Rao's Kanthapura 5. An Anatomy of Egyptian Secular-Liberal Nationalism 6. Tawfiq al-Hakim and the Dark Side of Egyptian Secular-Liberal Nationalist Discourse 7. Naguib Mahfouz, National Allegory and Neopatriarchy: The Cairo Trilogy 8. Reflections on Nationalism, Culture and Ideology In India and Egypt

'This is an important book. Mondal's admirably thorough expositions of the particular characteristics of India and Egypt's national imaginaries offer a significant contribution to the existing literature on both countries.' - Interventions