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History and the present / edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Delhi : Permanent Black ; Bangalore : Distributed by Orient Longman, c2002.Description: ix, 273 p., 12 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9788178240947(pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.0072 HIS
Contents:
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.
Summary: Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India.
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Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India.

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