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100	1		_aJabbar, Naheem. _920123
245	1	0	_aHistoriography and writing postcolonial India / _cNaheem Jabbar.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2009.
300			_ax, 244 p. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aPARTI 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
650		0	_aNationalism _zIndia _xHistory.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xSouth Asian authors _xHistory and criticism. _920124
651		0	_aIndia _xHistoriography. _99852
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