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New Cultural Histories of India : Materiality and Practices / edited by Partha Chatterjee, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Bodhisattva Kar.
Series: New cultural histories of India ; 3Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: xiv, 476 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780198090373
- 0198090374
- 954 CHA 23
- DS423 .N48 2014
Contents:
Summary: Most of the papers presented at the conference on 'New Cultural Histories of India', organized by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences during 5-7 January 2010.
Description
The essays in this volume describe certain major fields of cultural practice—textual, visual, aural, ritual, and spatial—in which the twin tasks of dealing with the material and the representational, or of explanation and interpretation, have been tackled in the recent historiography of India. Thus, it explores the continuous morphing of the cultural into the worlds of the social and political—the central idea of the book—and brings into a fresh dialogue the cultural materialities and practices of colonial and contemporary India. This volume is the third in a series on ‘New Cultural Histories of India’ facilitated by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. The present volume provides new insights into some of the key transitions in both subject matter and method that characterize the so-called cultural turn in history writing on India.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
The essays in this volume describe certain major fields of cultural practice—textual, visual, aural, ritual, and spatial—in which the twin tasks of dealing with the material and the representational, or of explanation and interpretation, have been tackled in the recent historiography of India. Thus, it explores the continuous morphing of the cultural into the worlds of the social and political—the central idea of the book—and brings into a fresh dialogue the cultural materialities and practices of colonial and contemporary India. This volume is the third in a series on ‘New Cultural Histories of India’ facilitated by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. The present volume provides new insights into some of the key transitions in both subject matter and method that characterize the so-called cultural turn in history writing on India.
Most of the papers presented at the conference on 'New Cultural Histories of India', organized by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences during 5-7 January 2010.
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