Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of ... - Page 290

Found inside – Page 290My reading of Tamas ( Darkness ) , a Doordarshan serial focusing on the riots ... of its central themes : its construction of discourses of communalism and ...

The Punjabi and Dalit Images in Indian Literature: ... - Page 184

Found inside – Page 184Though small in size , ' Tamas ' has a central theme of communalism and its real impact could be measured only when it was brought out into visual form by Govind Nihalani on small screen . In the first part of ' Jhootha Sach ' , Yashpal takes ...

Ice-Candy-Man

Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.

Hindutva as Political Monotheism

In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation.

A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, ...

Found inside – Page 187Tamas is in equal measure against fundamentalists and communalists of both communities , and not in favour of ... The message is loud and clear , directed as it is against the sickness of communalism . ... This might be the message of the mini - series produced by Doordarshan , but the theme of the book suggests that ...