The Subject of the Nation and His ’Others’ in Hindi Cinema: Gender, Religious, Caste, and Ethnic Identity as Difference

This book analyses the representations of the subjects of Hindi cinema as a way of gaining insights into the hegemony of the upper-caste Hindu male in narratives of nationhood.

MK Raghavendra is an independent scholar on culture, literature and politics, specializing in film, particularly its political side. He won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997, and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to research popular film narrative. Since then he has authored six volumes of academic film scholarship from international publishers including Routledge. Apart from these he has authored three academic works on literature, culture and politics. He has published in national and international anthologies and journals on the above subjects and his writing has been translated into French, Polish and Russian and published.