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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Delhi : Bangalore :
Permanent Black ; Distributed by Orient Longman
c2002.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: history and the present / Partha Chatterjee
- On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Sahid Amin
- Mythicising the white man: colonisation 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
