All Outputs (2)

Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School (1998)
Book
Srivastava, S. (1998). Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203980279

An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of t... Read More about Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School.

Post-Coloniality, National Identity, Globalisation and the Simulacra of the Real (1998)
Journal Article
Srivastava, S. (1998). Post-Coloniality, National Identity, Globalisation and the Simulacra of the Real. Social Semiotics, 8(2/3), 255-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350339809360412

The focus of this paper is a famous boys’ boarding school in the North Indian city of Dehra Dun. The Doon School was founded in 1935 and was soon hailed by a wide cross‐section of the postcolonial Indian intelligentsia as the site for the production... Read More about Post-Coloniality, National Identity, Globalisation and the Simulacra of the Real.