Historical Thinking in South Asia

Historical Thinking in South Asia

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Author: Michael Gottlob
Editor(s): Michael Gottlob
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 318
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195662172

Description

This volume acquaints the reader with the myriad ways in which people in modern South Asia have imagined and interpreted their past. This comprehensive volume provides a selection of sources which best exemplify the varying approaches found in historiography and historical research, historical fiction and the arts, the use of history in political discourse, and its representation in the media.

A handy reference source rendered even more relevant within the context of the ongoing debate on history writing, this volume will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of modern Indian history, South Asian studies, sociology, and politics, as well as the interested lay reader.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction

SOURCES

CHAPTER 1
India and Europe: Forms of Approaching and Distancing in the Historical World

Western Indology and the Construction of the Ahistorical Orient: Orientalism, Utilitarianism, Comparative History of Culture

The Self-Assurance of Indian Traditions: Reform, Renaissance, Revival

CHAPTER 2
The Agenda of a Modern Indian Historiography

History as an Object of Research

In Quest of a Perspective: Patriotism, Nationalism, Communalism

Conceptualizations of Temporal Change: Kaliyuga, Progress, Revolution

CHAPTER 3
Resistant Traditions, Alternative Histories, Idiosyncrasies

CHAPTER 4
After Colonialism: Historical Thinking in Contemporary South Asia

Objectivity, Prejudice, and the Call for Indian Frameworks of Interpretation

Unity and Diversity, Particularity and Universality

Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Change

Critique of the Western Concept of History and Development: The Dignity of Non-Modern Peoples

Subalternity and Agency, Fragmentation and Globalization

Glossary
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index