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Creative Pasts : Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960 / Prachi Deshpande.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures of HistoryPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231124867
  • 9780231511438
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954/.79025072 22
LOC classification:
  • DS485.M349 D47125 2007
  • DS485.M349 D47125 2007
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Bakhar Historiography -- 2. Representing Maratha Power -- 3. History, Print, and Education -- 4. Historiography and Nationalism -- 5. Region, Nation, and Maratha History -- 6. Maratha History and Historical Fiction -- 7. Caste, Identity, and Difference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a rich body of literary and cultural sources, Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern and modern India and the deep connections between historical and literary narratives. She traces the reproduction of the Maratha period in various genres and public arenas, its incorporation into regional political symbolism, and its centrality to the making of a modern Marathi regional consciousness. She also shows how historical memory provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their national, religious, and regional identities, pointing to history's deeper potential in shaping politics within thoroughly diverse societies.A truly unique study, Creative Pasts examines the practices of historiography and popular memory within a particular colonial context, and illuminates the impact of colonialism on colonized societies and cultures. Furthermore, it shows how modern history and historical memory are jointly created through the interplay of cultural activities, power structures, and political rhetoric.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Bakhar Historiography -- 2. Representing Maratha Power -- 3. History, Print, and Education -- 4. Historiography and Nationalism -- 5. Region, Nation, and Maratha History -- 6. Maratha History and Historical Fiction -- 7. Caste, Identity, and Difference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a rich body of literary and cultural sources, Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern and modern India and the deep connections between historical and literary narratives. She traces the reproduction of the Maratha period in various genres and public arenas, its incorporation into regional political symbolism, and its centrality to the making of a modern Marathi regional consciousness. She also shows how historical memory provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their national, religious, and regional identities, pointing to history's deeper potential in shaping politics within thoroughly diverse societies.A truly unique study, Creative Pasts examines the practices of historiography and popular memory within a particular colonial context, and illuminates the impact of colonialism on colonized societies and cultures. Furthermore, it shows how modern history and historical memory are jointly created through the interplay of cultural activities, power structures, and political rhetoric.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)