History and the Present

by Partha Chatterjee, Anjan Ghosh

Overview

These essays represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history. They examine the historian's practices and assumptions, being mainly concerned with finding a set of practices of history-writing that are both truthful and ethical. They are united by the desire to find a way out of the self-constructed cage of scientific history that has made historians wary of the popular.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843312246
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Series:	Anthem South Asian Studies
Edition description:	First Edition, 1
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Partha Chatterjee is an internationally renowned historian, a founder member of Subaltern Studies, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, and Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Anjan Ghosh is a professorial Fellow of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Table of Contents

Plates; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: History and the Present; 2. On Retelling the Muslim Conquest of North India; 3. Mythicising the White Man: Colonialism and Fantasy; 4. The Edangered Yakshi: Careers of an Ancient Art Object; 5. Genealogy, History and the Law: The Case of the Rajamala; 6. Village Histories: Coalescing the Past and Present; 7. The Two Pasts of Nasser's Peasants: Political Memories and Everyday Life in an Egyptian Village; 8. Writing the Riot: Between the Historiography and Ethnography of Communal Violence in India; 9. Re-Presenting Pasts: Santals in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Notes