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The history of history : politics and scholarship in modern India /Vinay Lal

By: Vinay LalContributor(s): Vinay LalMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2003Description: xi, 309 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195672442Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: Politics and cultureDDC classification: 954 LAL

Contents:

Introduction: History in the Ascendant Mode -- 1. The History of Ahistoricity: The Indian Tradition, Colonialism, and the Advent of Historical Thinking -- 2. Contours of the Past, Shape of the Future: The Politics of History in Independent India -- 3. History as Holocaust: Ayodhya and the Historians -- 4. Subalterns in the Academy: The Hegemony of History -- 5. Aryavarta and Silicon Valley: Indian History on the Net in the Age of Cyber Hinduism

Summary: 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.

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Introduction: History in the Ascendant Mode --
1. The History of Ahistoricity: The Indian Tradition, Colonialism, and the Advent of Historical Thinking --
2. Contours of the Past, Shape of the Future: The Politics of History in Independent India --
3. History as Holocaust: Ayodhya and the Historians --
4. Subalterns in the Academy: The Hegemony of History --
5. Aryavarta and Silicon Valley: Indian History on the Net in the Age of Cyber Hinduism

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.

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