The history of history
Subtitle: politics and scholarship in modern India
By: Vinay Lal.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Politics and culture -- India.; History -- Study and teaching -- India.; India -- Historiography.
Description: "This scholarly but extremely readable study will appeal to students and scholars of post-colonial and cultural studies, historians, and specialists in Indian studies as well as informed general readers interested in the increasingly important question of the role of history in the public domain."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-294) and index.