This text explores the politics of history writing in modern India. It narrates the engagement of a civilization with historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India and interact with the mythic, the ahistorical and the folk.
This text explores the politics of history writing in modern India. It narrates the engagement of a civilization with historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India.
Publisher
OUP India
Publication Date
Aug 2003
ISBN
9780195664652
Pages
322 p.
Item Type
Book
Format
Hardcover
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