Beyond BeliefBeyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation state. Roy argues that the postcolonial nation state is consolidated not, as many have asserted, by efforts to