Soon after Mother India’s emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to. .

In the book "Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India", Kalyani Devaki Menon argues that "the . The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8223-4610-4.

In the book "Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India", Kalyani Devaki Menon argues that "the vision of India as Bharat Mata has profound implications for the politics of Hindu nationalism" and that the depiction of India as a Hindu goddess implies that it is not just the patriotic but also the religious duty of all Hindus to participate in th.

Ramaswamy, S. The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India. Sumathi Ramaswamy Honored with Humboldt Award. Ramaswamy publishes her FHI-funded project.

mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial . In this book, Ramaswmy discusses nationalism in the late 1800s early 1900s in India using a combination of visual and textual resources/analysis.

mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory.

Mapping Mother India. Book Pages: 400 Illustrations: 152 illustrations, incl. 100 in color Published: April 2010. Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy. Subjects Asian Studies South Asia, Gender and Sexuality Feminism and Women’s Studies, Postcolonial and Colonial Studies. Sumathi Ramaswamy’s recent work The Goddess and the Nation serves as an elegant and insightful docent to the visual imagery of Bharat Mata in the late colonial and postcolonial periods. Ramaswamy’s most recent work is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of scholarship that engages Hindu nationalism in late colonial modernity and in the contemporary period.

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By exploring the mutual entanglement of the scientifically mapped image of India and a (Hindu) mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory. Providing an exemplary critique of ideologies of gender and the science of cartography, Ramaswamy demonstrates that images do not merely reflect history; they actively make it.

The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India. Ramaswamy's book is not only beautifully written and a most engaging read, it is also an important book, one which will force scholars to look anew at fabulous legends of lost lands and forgotten civilizations generally and more particularly at the greatness and global significance of Tamil civilization.

Book · January 2017 with 555 Reads. How we measure 'reads'. The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India by Sumathi Ramaswamy. January 2012 · Imago Mundi.