The discourse of tradition and modernity in contemporary Indian culture
This paper examines the binary between tradition and modernity in contemporary India through the use of film. It focuses specifically on the Hindu/Indian woman, and the way in which this discourse plays out on her body. I argue that the Victorian morality that the British colonisers of India imposed...
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Main Author: | Ahuja Richa |
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Other Authors: | Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand |
Format: | Final Year Project |
Language: | English |
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2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15219 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |
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