1st Edition
Cultural Histories of India Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography
Introduction Part 1: Investigating Cultural Practices, Fashioning Identities, and Travel Literature 1 John Locke’s India: Religion, Revelation, and Enthusiasm, Daniel Carey 2 Encountering the ‘Sati’: Early Modern English Travel Narratives and the Politics of Exoticization, Rita Banerjee 3 Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire: Mobility and Cosmopolitan Nationalism, Pramod K. Nayar Part 2: Alternate Histories, Divergent Concepts, and Subaltern Spaces of Resistance 4 Patriots in Kala Pani? Writing Subaltern Resistance into the Nationalist Memory, Philipp Zehmisch 5 Reading Bhikshu Bodhanand’s Mool Bharatvasi aur Arya: Reflections on an Alternative History of the ‘Beginnings’ of Indian Civilization, Tapan K. Basu 6 Enacting Resistance in History and Fiction: Counter-narratives of Tribal Historiography in Mahasweta Devi’s Writings, Debarati Das and Rita Banerjee 7 "We must create a history of India in living terms": Patrick Geddes and Aspects of Sister Nivedita's Writings on Indian History, Arpita Mitra Part 3: Writing History and Engaging with Peripheral Genres 8 Cassetted Emotions: Intimate Songs and Marital Conflicts in the Age of Pravasi (1970-1990), P. K. Yasser Arafath 9 Framing History, Precarity, and Trauma: A Study of Nandita Das’s Firaaq, Nishat Haider
Biography
Rita Banerjee is Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, India.
