Title: History at the limit of world-history
First published: 2002
Description: The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at work today, offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history. That concept, he contends, reduces the course of human history to the amoral reco.
Subjects: Historiography, World history, Philosophy, History, History, philosophy, India & South Asia, Histoire universelle, Historiographie, Histoire, Philosophie
LC classification: D20 .G756 2002