TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jabbar,Naheem
TI  - Historiography and writing postcolonial India
SN  - 0415488478 (hardback)
U1  - 954.04072 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - English literature
KW  - South Asian authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Historiography
N1  - 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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