Sarkar, Sumit,

Writing social history / Sumit Sarkar. - New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - x, 390 p. ; 22 cm. - Oxford India paperbacks. .

Part I - 1. The many worlds of Indian History -- 2. The relevance of E.P. Thompson -- 3. The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern studies

Part II - 4. Edward Thompson and India: The other side of the Medal -- 5. The city imagined: Calcutta of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries -- 6. Renaissance and Kaliyuga: time, myth and history in colonial Bengal -- 7. Vidyasagar adn Brahmanical society -- 8. Kaliyuga, Chakri and Bhakti: Ramakrishna and his times -- 9. Identity and difference: caste in the formation of the ideologies of nationalism and Hindutva

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India -- Historiography.


India--Social conditions.
India--Civilization.

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