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The history of history : politics and scholarship in modern India
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The history of history : politics and scholarship in modern India / Vinay Lal.
ISBN
9780195672442 (pbk.)
0195672445 (pbk.)
Published
New Delhi : New York : Oxford University Press, 2005, c2003 (2007 printing).
Physical Description
xi, 325 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
First published in hardcover: 2003.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 28, 2010
Series
Oxford India paperbacks
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-310) and index.
Contents
Introduction: history in the ascendant mode
The history of ahistoricity: the Indian tradition, colonialism, and the advent of historical thinking
Contours of the past, shape of the future: the politics of history in independent India
History as holocaust: Ayodhya and the historians
Subalterns in the academy: the hegemony of history
Aryavarta and Silicon Valley: Indian history on the Net in the age of cyber Hinduism.
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