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Historiography and writing postcolonial India / Naheem Jabbar.

By: Jabbar, Naheem Material type: Text

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: 954.04072

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	954.04072 JAB/H (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10045

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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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