期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：99-101
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：Nationalism has been one of the most debated, contested and discussed concepts within the precincts of Indian history and society. Issues of nation, national identity and nation-building have served as recurrent topics in public discourse in India well over the past century. The basic source of the huge compendium of literature pertaining to the theme 'nationalism' in India has been mainly the "written sources". This "over-reliance by historians on written sources" has naturally led to an exclusivist and elitist understanding of the narrative of Indian nationalism. But interestingly, the esoteric nature of nationalism in India has also expressed itself through myriad vehicles of expression ranging from posters, movies and paintings to mobile display of ideologies like processions (coming under the rubric of visual iconography). This stress on "visual imagery" has helped to reach out to the strata of Indian society beyond the ken of literacy. This vast non-elitist Indian society has recorded their perception and values with the help of visual iconography. Picturing the Nation explores visual representations of India from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. It offers the readers native versions of imagination and analyses of the same. As statedabove, literature on visual imagery and its relationship with nationalism has been sparse
