The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition Japan Her search leads her to

Her search leads her to people of great wisdom

encouraging them to shed their surroundings and biases and enter “The Country of the Mind

scathing in its indictment of a cruel society

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The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition Japan Her search leads her toImagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most violent chapter of its the partition of the subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance. Menon recuperates the manifold valences of "mimesis" as