The History of History
Politics and Scholarship in Modern India
Format:Paperback
Publisher:OUP India
Published:16th Jun '05
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A radical contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in modern India. It narrates the engagement of a civilisation with the historical sensibility and modaility. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India, and interact with the mythic, the a historical, and the folk. This edition has a new afterword, in which the author sums up some of the important developments in current debates on history-writing.
ISBN: 9780195672442
Dimensions: 217mm x 141mm x 20mm
Weight: 327g
338 pages