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History and the present / edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Historiography.
- India--Historiography--Congresses.
- India.
- India--History--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 273 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Delhi : Permanent Black ; Bangalore : Distributed by Orient Longman, [2002]
- Summary:
- Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 817824036X
- OCLC:
- 51586338
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