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Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India / Henry Schwarz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical HistoriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1997Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812233735
  • 9781512806458
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954 21
LOC classification:
  • DS428
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Ruse of Progress -- 1. Liberal Nationalist Histories -- 2. Radical Nationalist Histories -- 3. Marxist/Materialist Histories -- 4. Transitions: Mediation and Irony -- 5. Subaltern Studies: Radical History in the Metaphoric Mode -- 6. Conclusion: Irony as Tragedy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Analyzes Indian cultural histories written between 1870 and the present. Focuses on English-language texts by Bengali historians on the subject of literature and culture, and compares Indian writing on cultural heritage to the dominant forms of European historiography prevalent during the colonial period.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Ruse of Progress -- 1. Liberal Nationalist Histories -- 2. Radical Nationalist Histories -- 3. Marxist/Materialist Histories -- 4. Transitions: Mediation and Irony -- 5. Subaltern Studies: Radical History in the Metaphoric Mode -- 6. Conclusion: Irony as Tragedy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Analyzes Indian cultural histories written between 1870 and the present. Focuses on English-language texts by Bengali historians on the subject of literature and culture, and compares Indian writing on cultural heritage to the dominant forms of European historiography prevalent during the colonial period.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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