| Description |
ix, 273 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: history and the present / Partha Chatterjee -- On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Sahid Amin -- Mythicising the white man: colonisation and fantasy in a folk tradition / Sundar Kaali -- The endangered Yakshi: careers of an ancient art object in modern India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Genealogy, history, and the law: the case of the Rajamala / Indrani Chatterjee -- Village histories: coalescing the past and present / Nandini Sundar -- The two pasts of Nasser's peasants: political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village / Reem Saad -- Writing the riot: between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India / Deepak Mehta -- Re-presenting pasts: Santals in nineteenth-century Bengal / Prathama Banerjee |
| Summary |
Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
History -- Methodology.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104414
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-
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Ghosh, Anjan.
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| LC no. |
2002299242 |
| ISBN |
8178240947 paperback |
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817824036X |
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