History and the present

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TextPublication details: Delhi Permanent Black 2002Description: ix,273p. ill. maps 22 cmISBN:

9788178240947

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22 954 HI-

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.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	954 HI- (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		121300

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Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India.

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