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Katherine Mayo - Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha - 9780472097159 - V9780472097159
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Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha

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Description for Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha Hardcover. A new edition of Mayo's controversial 1927 book, with commentary that sheds new light on Indian nationalism of this period Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.

Mother India, a polemical attack against Indian self-rule written by U.S. historian Katherine Mayo, was met with a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927. The controversy generated still reverberates and thus is still worth revisiting, some fifty years after Indian independence. In responding to Mayo's argument laid out in Mother India, the leaders of the national movement and the independent women's movement in India laid the foundations of an alliance that gave modern Indian nationalism its distinctive character.
Mrinalini's Sinha's edition provides selections of this controversial book and commentary on the Mother India phenomenon. It also reprints ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472097159
SKU
V9780472097159
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Katherine Mayo
Mrinalini Sinha is Associate Professor of History, Southern Illinois University. She is the author of Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century.

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