Archetypal Motherhood and the National Agenda: The Case of the Indian Muslim Women by Ayshath Shamah Rahmath, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Ruzy Suliza Hashim

Subjects: “…Mother India…”
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THE YOUNG GODDESS IN THE ANCIENT PANTHEON OF INDIA by I. T. Prokofieva

Subjects: “…mother india (bharat-mata)…”
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Mother-Son Relationship and Identity Formation in The Moor’s Last Sigh by Kübra Kangüleç Coşkun

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Bollywood en Quismondo: versiones del cine indio para la exportación, 1953-1962 / Bollywood in Quismondo: Versions of Indian Cinema for Export, 1953-1962 by Alberto Elena

“…<p>El planteamiento inicial de este trabajo consistía en un estudio comparativo de dos películas de la India dirigidas por Mehboob Khan —Maya (Aan, 1953) y Madre India (Mother India, 1957)— a partir de sus versiones originales y las estrenadas en España en esa misma década de 1950. …”
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Reconfiguring India: Narrating the Nation through Great Men Biopics by Preeti Kumar

“…Bollywood in general and the biopic in particular has moved away from the Mother India mythology and its feminine reading of the nation to produce a particular variant of nationalism. …”
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Wounds Sustained, Wounds Nurtured: Rituals of Violence at Wagah by Monirul ISLAM

“…The patriotic frenzy, however, leads to a menacing display virtual violence as the cry varat mata ki jai ( victory to mother India) on the one side and Pakisthan jindabad(long live Pakistan) on the other bangs upon the ear and fills the air around. …”
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Agency through Hindu spirituality in K.S. Maniam's The Return by Awang, Mohammad Ewan, Omar, Noritah

“…Hinduism is deemed to either exacerbate their sense of alienation and marginalization in Malaysia or reiterate the community’s nostalgic longing for Mother India. In this line of thought, religion is said to lack the capacity to grant agency to the Malaysian Indians. …”
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