Calling of History Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth

Name: Calling of History Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth
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ISBN: 9780226100456

ISBN-10: 0226100456

ISBN-13: 9780226100456

Edition: 2015

Authors: Dipesh Chakrabarty

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A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and anti-colonialism. The Calling of History examines Sarkar’s career—and poignant obsolescence—as a way in to larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life.Through close readings of more than twelve hundred letters to and from Sarkar along with other archival documents, Dipesh…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English