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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Sarkar, Tanika |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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Birth of a Goddess: `Vande Mataram', Anandamath, and Hindu nationhood |
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2006 |
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p.3959-969. |
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16 Sep |
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In the current controversy about the national song, the general assumption seems to be that the song `Vande Mataram' reflect nothing more than an uncomplicated love for the motherland, and that it is unreasonable of Muslims, if not actually unpatriotic, to object to it. The present essay looks at some of the older debates about the song and also about the novel Anandamath which frames the song. In the light of its novelistic context, the article argues, the song acquires different and darker meanings. Moreover, the verses that are not usually sung compose a vision of a militaristic patriotism that gradually replaces the more nurturing resonances of the earlier parts. The gradual movements of the song and in the novel, while it simultaneously assesses the different readings of both - political and literary. It concludes with an attempt to seek out hidden subtexts in the novel which sometime disturb and deconstruct its dominant and obvious meanings. - Reproduced. |
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National song |
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Economic and Political Weekly |
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