History and the present
By: edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh.
Contributors: Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-; Ghosh, Anjan.
Publisher: Permanent Black; Distributed by Orient Longman
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Delhi; Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: History -- Methodology.; India -- Historiography.
Description: Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: history and the present / Partha Chatterjee; title: On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Sahid Amin; title: Mythicising the white man: colonisation and fantasy in a folk tradition / Sundar Kaali; title: The endangered Yakshi: careers of an ancient art object in modern India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta; title: Genealogy, history, and the law: the case of the Rajamala / Indrani Chatterjee; title: Village histories: coalescing the past and present / Nandini Sundar; title: The two pasts of Nasser's peasants: political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village / Reem Saad; title: Writing the riot: between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India / Deepak Mehta; title: Re-presenting pasts: Santals in nineteenth-century Bengal / Prathama Banerjee.