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Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History


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The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In this volume, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practised in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography, anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies should find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays.



Table of Contents:

Preliminary
Introduction
I. Colonial Times: Clocks and Kali-yuga
II. Identities and Histories: Some Lower-Caste Narratives from Early Twentieth-Century Bengal
III. Intimations of Hindutva: Ideologies, Caste, and Class in Post-Swadeshi Bengal
IV. Two Muslim Tracts for Peasants: Bengal 1909-1910
V. Nationalism and "Stri-Swadhinata": The Contexts and Meanings of Rabindranath's Ghare-Baire
VI. Postmodernism and the Writing of History
VII. The BJP Bomb and Nationalism
VIII. Christianity, Hindutva, and the Question of Conversions
IX. Hindutva and History



About the Author :

SUMIT SARKAR is Professor of History at Delhi University. His books include Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908; Bibliographical Survey of Social Reform Movements; Popular Movements and Middle-Class Leadership in Late-Colonial India; Modern India 1885-1947; A Critique of Colonial India; and Writing Social History.



Review :
" ... a subtle and illuminating critique of 'post-modernist' influences on contemporary Indian historical writing."--Asian Affairs, November 2004


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253342034
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 530 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0253342031
  • Publisher Date: 20 Sep 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History
  • Width: 140 mm


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