
The History of History
Politics and Scholarship in Modern India
Vinay Lal(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Will be published approx. in December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
978-0-19-567244-2 (ISBN)
Description
A radical contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in modern India. It narrates the engagement of a civilisation with the historical sensibility and modaility. 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 a historical, and the folk. This edition has a new afterword, in which the author sums up some of the important developments in current debates on history-writing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-567244-2 (9780195672442)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
(Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Author
, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA