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History and the present

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Delhi Permanent Black 2002Description: ix,273p. ill. maps 22 cmISBN:
  • 9788178240947
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 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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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.

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

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