Historiography and writing postcolonial India / Naheem Jabbar.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: x, 244 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0415488478 (hardback); 9780415488471 (hardback); 0203876687 (ebook); 9780203876688 (ebook)Subject(s): Nationalism -- India -- History | English literature -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism | India -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 954.04072Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 954.04072 JAB/H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P10045 |
PARTI
Re-thinking Indian histories
1 Historiography and narrative
Introduction 3
Interpretive modes: modem and
postmodern 19
2 The historical sense
Introduction 49
History and the myth of science 50
History as knowledge and sense 64
3 Hindutva and writing postcolonial India
Introduction 84
Interpretive modes 106
A nation is bom 115
The concept o/Hindutva as the primitive
sublime 122
The concept o/'Hindutva and history 125
4 B. R. Ambedkar and the Hindu past
Introduction 133
Improving the apocalyptic present 139
Dissolving the Hindu past 144
PART 2
Re-imagining Indian pasts
5 V. S. Naipaul's'India': history and the myth of antiquity
Introduction 159
Figuring a history ofthe present 162
India as multitude 165
History and the myth of purity in antiquity 173
6 Salman Rushdie and the agon of the past
Introduction 180
The tragic form and its discontents 184
History as the tragic form 196
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