The Order of Men: The Nation and the Metropolitan Imaginary at an Indian Public School

Srivastava, Sanjay

Abstract

This article is concerned with exploring discursive constructions of Indian post-coloniality and modernity. The analysis focuses upon a fully residential boys school in North India, the Doon School, which has played a historically significant role in the production of a discourse on nationhood and citizenship. Elsewhere, I have argued that the School defines its citizenship project in terms of three main ‘imaginaries’: secularism, rationality, and ‘metropolitanism’. This paper explores the construction of a narrative of the post-colonial nation-state at the School through ‘metropolitanism’.

Citation

Srivastava, S. (1993). The Order of Men: The Nation and the Metropolitan Imaginary at an Indian Public School. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 4(3), 163-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1993.tb00174.x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 9, 1992
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1993
• Deposit Date: Oct 17, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 2, 2093
• Journal: The Australian Journal of Anthropology
• Print ISSN: 1035-8811
• Electronic ISSN: 1757-6547
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 163-183
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1993.tb00174.x
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1993.tb00174.x