TY - BOOK AU - Sarkar,Sumit TI - Writing social history SN - 9780195646337 (pbk.) U1 - 954 PY - 1998/// CY - New Delhi PB - New York, Oxford University Press KW - India -- Historiography. KW - India KW - Social conditions KW - Civilization N1 - 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 ER -