Using Culture to Create ‘Others’

The book under review is a treat for scholars and students of Indian ‘cinematology’ embedded in social science. The landscape, timeframe and theoretical debates around Hindi cinema have been deliberated in an extensive way. The idea of ‘Social Language’, its construction and meaning in reference to the Dalit have been explored. Idealist philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Kant and JS Mill to Materialist philosophers such as Marx have been employed to originate, develop and evolve the theoretical arguments in the book.