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History and the present /
Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India.
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Idioma: | English |
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Delhi : Bangalore :
Permanent Black ; Distributed by Orient Longman,
c2002.
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Taula de continguts:
- Introduction : history and the present / Partha Chatterjee
- On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Shahid Amin
- Mythicising the white man : colonialism and fantasy in a folk tradition / Sundar Kaali
- The endangered yakshi : careers of an ancient art object in modern India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta
- Genealogy, history, and the law : the case of the rajamala / Indrani Chatterjee
- Village histories : coalescing the past and present / Nandini Sundar
- The two pasts of Nasser's peasants : political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village / Reem Saad
- Writing the riot : between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India / Deepak Mehta
- Re-presenting pasts : Santals in nineteenth-century Bengal / Prathama Banerjee.