Writing Social History

Name: Writing Social History
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ISBN: 9780195646337

ISBN-10: 0195646339

ISBN-13: 9780195646337

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sumit Sarkar

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The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial domination. Sumit Sarkar makes a powerful case for the importance of richly-detailed, nuanced social history.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Preface



The Many Worlds of Indian History



The Relevance of E. P. Thompson



The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies



Edward Thompson and India: The Other Side of the Medal



The City Imagined: Calcutta of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries



Renaissance and Kaliyuga: Time, Myth and History in Colonial Bengal



Vidyasagar and Brahmanical Society



Kaliyuga, Chakri and Bhakti: Ramakrishna and His Times



Identity and Difference: Caste in the Formation of the Ideologies of Nationalism and Hindutva