The history of history : Politics and scholarship in modern India

By:

Lal Vinay

Contributor(s):

Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2010Description: 325p ixISBN:

9780195672442

Subject(s):

1. History - India

DDC classification:

954.000000 LAL

Contents:

Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction: The History in the Ascendant mode; 1. The History of Ahistoricity: The Indian tradition, colonialism, and the advent of historical thinking; 2 Contours of the Past, Shape of the Future: The politics of history in independent India; 3 History as Holocaust: Ayodhya and the historians; 4 Subalterns in the Academy: The Hegemony of history; 5 Aryavarta and Silicon Valley: Indian history on the net in the age of cyber Hinduism; Selected bibliography; Index.

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Contents:
Acknowledgements;
Introduction: The History in the Ascendant mode;
1. The History of Ahistoricity: The Indian tradition, colonialism, and the advent of historical thinking;
2 Contours of the Past, Shape of the Future: The politics of history in independent India;
3 History as Holocaust: Ayodhya and the historians;
4 Subalterns in the Academy: The Hegemony of history;
5 Aryavarta and Silicon Valley: Indian history on the net in the age of cyber Hinduism;
Selected bibliography;
Index.

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