Nationalism is a fluid concept which needs contextual understanding. Construction of communal and caste identities played an important role in countering or qualifying nationalism in the United Provinces (UP) (1918–30). This article investigates the contents of some of the Brahman caste journals in order to study the evolution of identify consciousness, the construction of the ‘self’ vs. the ‘other’, where the self was always the Hindu upper caste, and the ‘other’ was invariably the ‘Musalman’. It is clear that identity consciousness had an overarching presence in middle-class UP in the 1920s—a presence which is clearly traceable in the caste journals published in that decade.

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偏见和身份：印地语高种姓期刊，联合省（1918-30）

民族主义是一个流动的概念，需要语境理解。在联合省 (UP) (1918-30) 中，社区和种姓身份的构建在对抗或限定民族主义方面发挥了重要作用。本文调查了一些婆罗门种姓期刊的内容，以研究认同意识的演变，“自我”与“他者”的构建，其中“自我”始终是印度教上层种姓，“他者” '总是'Musalman'。很明显，身份意识在 1920 年代的中产阶级 UP 中占据了主导地位——这一存在在那个十年出版的种姓期刊中清晰可见。