Between Hindu and Indian: the nationalist thought of Lala Lajpat Rai by Bhargav, V

“…By showing that Lajpat Rai eventually moved towards Indian nationalist narratives, it further undermines the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in <em>Hindutva</em>. …”

A Post-Colonial Assessment of Indian Nationalism in Tagore’s Selected Novels by Ebenezer, Huldahrajammal

“…This paper is an investigation into the history of India during the early nineteenth century with the birth of the Indian Nationalist Movement under the British colonizers. …”
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Dancing diaspora, performing nation: Indian classical dance in multicultural London by Thobani, S

“…Locating my study in the UK while still accounting for the Indian nationalist aspects of the dance, my contribution to the scholarly literature is to analyse its performance in relation to both Indian and British national identity. …”

Orientalism and India by Jukka Jouhki

“…Moreover, a Indo-Orientalism as an imported ideology to be used in Indian nationalist discourses to emphasize a dichotomy between India and "the West" is discussed.…”
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(Post)Colonial State and Constitutionalism in India. Differences and Crossings by Giorgio Grappi

“…The essay deals with the relation between the formation of British India and the development of Indian nationalist movement through the events related to the ‘tiger of Mysore’, Tipu Sultan, and the swadeshi movement as portrayed in Tagore’s The Home and the World. …”
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How to Dress a National Elite: The Case of the Kalakshetra Sari by Kaamya Sharma

“…This article looks at the emergence of the Kalakshetra sari as an object of consumption for the Indian nationalist elite in the 1930s within the context of the Theosophical Movement, preoc-cupations with the role of women in public life, and the material culture practices of colonial South India. …”
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German-speaking exiles and the writing of Indian art history by Devika Singh

“…Far from propagating an esoteric, Hindu-centred perspective on Indian art, as did many Indian nationalist art historians, émigrés championed an inclusive take on art by integrating its Muslim as well as Hindu heritage. …”
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Do You Believe in Ram Setu? Adam’s Bridge, Epistemic Plurality and Colonial Legacy by Arup Chatterjee

“…Without understanding how the British colonial state saw Adam's Bridge, we may wrongly infer that today's Indian nationalist assertions of its sacrality necessarily stem from an anticolonial praxis to restore a politics of enchantment within Indian modernity. …”
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The Domestic Sphere in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961): The Home Mirrors the World. by Arunima Dey

“…As its theoretical framework, the article refers to postcolonial scholar Partha Chatterjee who claims that the Indian nationalist agenda during freedom movement turned home into a sacred site that was meant to safeguard the native values from the ‘corrupting’ Western ideology, which led to the segregation of the public and private sphere. …”
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Indian Women During the Japanese Occupation in Malaya, 1941-1945 by Nair, Syamala, Musa, Mahani

“…The study utilises qualitative method using archival sources, newspapers, and recollections from witnesses and participants of the Indian nationalist movement. Documentary sources kept at the National Archives of Malaysia and Singapore, and the Singapore Oral History Centre provide glimpses of how Indian women managed wartime challenges, and how the Japanese attempted to mobilise them. …”
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The Political Theology of Nationalism: Exploring the Intersectionality between Nation, Caste and Gender in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath by Monica Choudhary

“…This paper makes use of Bankim’s Anandamath to illustrate the emergence of Hindutva forces and the ease with which they fitted in Indian nationalist discourse. Anandamath has no explicit political agenda but it implicitly tries to construct a new moral universe for its readers. …”
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Through the Ages of Life: Rabindranath Tagore -- Son, Father, and Educator (1861-1941) by Swapna M. Banerjee

“…An examination of the interminable connection between Tagore’s personal and public life disrupts the separation between the home and the world and establishes the centrality of the domestic in Indian nationalist politics. As a father and a reformer, Tagore challenged existing notions of masculinity through his reformed and secular model of education.…”
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Cairo between worlds: Britain, India, and the Middle East, 1935-1942 by O'Halloran, E

“…These are, first, British policy in the Middle East; second, Government of India contributions to, and interventions in, British policy in the Middle East; third, Egyptian foreign and domestic politics; and fourth, Indian nationalist engagement with Egyptian and Middle Eastern politics.…”

À travers les âges de la vie : Rabindranath Tagore – fils, père et éducateur (1861-1941) by Swapna M. Banerjee

“…An examination of the interminable connection between Tagore’s personal and public life disrupts the separation between the home and the world and establishes the centrality of the domestic in Indian nationalist politics. As a father and a reformer, Tagore challenged existing notions of masculinity through his reformed and secular model of education.…”
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The Indian National Congress and political mobilisation in the United Provinces, 1926-1934 by Pandey, G

“…To meet this difficulty, historians have sought to re-introduce by new methods some element of continuity and permanence into their concept of the Indian nationalist movement. An important suggestion has been that the links between different levels of politics, different regions and different interests were provided by the formal political structure imposed on the country by the British. …”

Decolonising Anglo-Indians: strategies for a mixed-race community in late colonial India during the first half of the 20th century. by Charlton-Stevens, U

“…</p> <p>The thesis reveals how calls for Indianisation of state and railway employment by Indian nationalists in the assemblies inaugurated by the 1919 Government of India Act threatened, through opening up their reserved intermediary positions to competitive entry and examination by Indians, to undermine the economic base of domiciled employment. …”