History and the present

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

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

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distributed by Orient Longman, Permanent Black
Place of Publication:Delhi
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2002.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 273 p., 12 p. of plates : : ill., maps ; : 22 cm

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ISBN:817824036X, 9788178240367
oclc:ocn954691756

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.