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Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

Jabbar, Naheem

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0415488478
ISBN13: 9780415488471
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 24 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing.

In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a critical analysis of the uses made of India's often millennial past by nationalist ideologues who sought a specific solution to India's predicament on its way to becoming a post-colonial state. From independence to the present, it considers the competing visions of India's liberation from her apocalyptical present to be found in the thinking of Gandhi, V. D. Savarkar, Nehru and B. R. Ambedkar as well as V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie. It examines some of the archetypal elements in historical consciousness that find their echo in often brutal unhistorical ways in everyday life.

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