The Origins of Modern Historiography in India
Title | The Origins of Modern Historiography in India PDF eBook |
Author | R. Mantena |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2012-02-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137011920 |
This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India.
The History of History
Title | The History of History PDF eBook |
Author | Vinay Lal |
Publisher | Oxford India Paperbacks |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780195672442 |
"This study concentrates on the politics of history-writing, offering a nuanced account of how historical thinking and the discipline of history began to assume importance in colonial and independent India. Along with discussions of the role of historians in the dispute over the now-destroyed Babri Masjid and the so-called 'saffronization' of history textbooks, the book also engages with Subaltern Studies, and provides insights into iconic debates over Shivaji, Aurangzeb, beef-eating, and the relationship between history and the nation state." "With a new Postscript that takes into account recent developments, this highly readable account of the rise of history will appeal to students and scholars of postcolonial and culture studies, historians, social scientists, and informed general readers interested in the role of history in the public domain."--BOOK JACKET.
A Global History of Modern Historiography
Title | A Global History of Modern Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | Georg G Iggers |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317895010 |
So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.
Modern India
Title | Modern India PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Jeffrey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198769342 |
India has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the cultural changes unfolding in India today. Craig Jeffrey looks at the history of India, and considers the questions and challenges facing it today, informed by the everyday stories of Indian citizens.
The Calling of History
Title | The Calling of History PDF eBook |
Author | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2015-07-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0226100456 |
Dipesh Chakrabarty s eagerly anticipated book examines the politics of history through the careerand in many ways tragic fateof the distinguished historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1957). One of the most important scholars in India during the first half of the twentieth century, Sarkar was knighted in 1929 and is still the only Indian historian to have ever been elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Historical Association. He was a universalizing and scientific historian, highly influential during much of his career, but, by the end of his lifetime, he became marginalized by the history establishment in India. History, Chakrabarty writes, sometimes plays truant with historians: by the 1970swhen Chakrabarty himself was a novice historianSarkar was almost completely forgotten. Through Sarkar s story, Chakrabarty explores the role of historical scholarship in India s colonial modernity and throws new light on the ways that postcolonial Indian historians embraced a more partisan idea of truth in the name of democratic and anti-colonial politics."
Essays in Indian History
Title | Essays in Indian History PDF eBook |
Author | Irfan Habib |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Historical materialism |
ISBN | 1843310252 |
This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
Creative Pasts
Title | Creative Pasts PDF eBook |
Author | Prachi Deshpande |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2007-05-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231511434 |
The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a rich body of literary and cultural sources, Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern and modern India and the deep connections between historical and literary narratives. She traces the reproduction of the Maratha period in various genres and public arenas, its incorporation into regional political symbolism, and its centrality to the making of a modern Marathi regional consciousness. She also shows how historical memory provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their national, religious, and regional identities, pointing to history's deeper potential in shaping politics within thoroughly diverse societies. A truly unique study, Creative Pasts examines the practices of historiography and popular memory within a particular colonial context, and illuminates the impact of colonialism on colonized societies and cultures. Furthermore, it shows how modern history and historical memory are jointly created through the interplay of cultural activities, power structures, and political rhetoric.