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