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标题：Cultural Resistance And The Indian National Liberation; A Study Of The Indian Freedom Movement From A Cultural Perspective In A God In Every Stone
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作者：Inam Ullah ; Abid Nawaz Khan ; Gul Andama 等
期刊名称：Webology
印刷版ISSN：1735-188X
出版年度：2022
卷号：19
期号：2
页码：6691-6705
语种：English
出版社：University of Tehran
摘要：The colonial advances have always witnessed different modes of resistance offered by the native subjects throughout history. Various nationalist movements emerged in the colonies to oppose the external control of their land. Studies have highlighted that colonial domination was repelled by armed- resistance and political agitation. However, Kamila Shamsieâ€™s A God in Every Stone (2014), adds another mode of resistance witnessed by the British Empire in the Indian subcontinent, cultural resistance through nonviolent means. Shamsie depicts the Pashtun contribution to the Indian freedom movement and their resistance against the British through cultural capital. The study contends that the tool of cultural and nonviolent resistance, advanced by the Pashtun population, played a major role in the freedom of the Indian subcontinent, and the use of peaceful means and nonviolence is more compatible with Pashtun people who are generally associated with violence and warmongering. This is a qualitative study based on Shamsieâ€™s historical novel. The analysis is developed around the theoretical framework of Amilcar Cabralâ€™s National Liberation and Culture (2015). The study, in contrast to the commonly held notion, concludes that alongside the other forms of resistance, cultural resistance was a major factor in the Indian Freedom Movement.
关键词：Cultural Resistance;Nativism;Nonviolence;Freedom Movement;Decolonization;Pashtuns;Race;British Empire