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Book SynopsisThe political context in which historians of India find themselves is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism. This title offers a view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this conjuncture.
Trade Review" ... a subtle and illuminating critique of 'post-modernist' influences on contemporary Indian historical writing."--Asian Affairs, November 2004
Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Colonial Times: Clocks and Kali-yuga
II. Identities and Histories: Some Lower-Caste Narratives from Early Twentieth-Century Bengal
III. Intimations of Hindutva: Ideologies, Caste, and Class in Post-Swadeshi Bengal
IV. Two Muslim Tracts for Peasants: Bengal 1909-1910
V. Nationalism and "Stri-Swadhinata": The Contexts and Meanings of Rabindranath's Ghare-Baire
VI. Postmodernism and the Writing of History
VII. The BJP Bomb and Nationalism
VIII. Christianity, Hindutva, and the Question of Conversions
IX. Hindutva and History
