Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place
and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than
submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in
geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain
of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and
classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer
possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has
historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the
future.