Handcuffed to history
Subtitle: narratives, pathologies, and violence in South Asia
By: edited by S.P. Udayakumar
Contributors: Udayakumar, S. P
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Communalism -- South Asia; South Asia -- History -- 20th century; South Asia -- Historiography; South Asia -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: History, politics, space: unmapping the imperium / Michael Shapiro; title: Mimetic history: narrating India through foreign policy / Sankaran Krishna; title: The construction of national identities for the cosmic drama: chosenness-myths-trauma (CMT) syndromes and cultural pathologies / Johan Galtung; title: Historicizing myth and mythologizing history: the violent "Ram Temple" drama / S.P. Udayakumar; title: "Faces of the beloved": rerouting the tragic history of the Kashmir issue / Daanish Mustafa, Viren Murthy; title: Dharma and the rights of untouchables / Mark Juergensmeyer; title: The poetics and the politics of the Mahavamsa / Wimal Dissanayake; title: Handcuffed to history and chained to the future: distant futures and alternative presents for South Asia / Sohail Inayatullah; title: Afterword: local histories and global futures / S.P. Udayakumar