260 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing.
In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a critical analysis of the uses made of India’s often millennial past by nationalist ideologues who... Read more
Preface: Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India Part 1: Re-thinking Indian Histories 1. Historiography and Narrative 2. The Historical Sense 3. Hindutva and Writing Postcolonial India 4. B.R. Ambedkar and the Hindu Past Part 2: Re-imagining Indian Pasts 5. V.S. Naipaul’s India: History and the Myth of Antiquity 6. Salman Rushdie and the Agon of the Past. Conclusion
Biography
Naheem Jabbar is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
