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The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India

The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India

Lal, Vinay

Hardcover

HistoriographyIndian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 0195664655
ISBN13: 9780195664652
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 25 2003
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.86
Language: English
A radical contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in modern India. It narrativizes the engagement of a civilization with the historical sensibility and modality. 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 ahistorical, and the folk. The endeavor is not to offer a comprehensive account over the last two centuries, but rather to explore the manner in which historical thinking inserted itself into the public domain.

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