| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 325 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: history in the ascendant mode -- The history of ahistoricity: the Indian tradition, colonialism, and the advent of historical thinking -- Contours of the past, shape of the future: the politics of history in independent India -- History as holocaust: Ayodhya and the historians -- Subalterns in the academy: the hegemony of history -- Aryavarta and Silicon Valley: Indian history on the Net in the age of cyber Hinduism |
| Summary |
A contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in India. It narrates the engagement of a civilisation with the historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Politics and culture -- India
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History -- Study and teaching -- India
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15.75 history of Asia.
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15.01 historiography.
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Historiography
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History -- Study and teaching
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Politics and culture
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Historiography.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Historiography
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| Subject |
India
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India.
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| Genre/Form |
History (form)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199081929 |
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0199081921 |
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