History and the present /
edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh.
- London ; Des Plaines, IL : Anthem Press, 2006.
- 232 p., 12 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Anthem South Asian studies .
Based on a conference at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, in Feb. 1999. Reprint. Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-232).
Introduction : history and the present / Partha Chatterjee -- On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Shahid Amin -- Mythicising the white man : colonialism and fantasy in a folk tradition / Sundar Kaali -- The endangered yakshi : careers of an ancient art object in modern India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Genealogy, history, and the law : the case of the rajamala / Indrani Chatterjee -- Village histories : coalescing the past and present / Nandini Sundar -- The two pasts of Nasser's peasants : political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village / Reem Saad -- Writing the riot : between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India / Deepak Mehta -- Re-presenting pasts : Santals in nineteenth-century Bengal / Prathama Banerjee.
1843312247 (hbk.) 1843310945 (pbk.)
2006286114
History--Methodology.
DS435 / .H526 2006
954.0072 / HIS
Based on a conference at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, in Feb. 1999. Reprint. Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-232).
Introduction : history and the present / Partha Chatterjee -- On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Shahid Amin -- Mythicising the white man : colonialism and fantasy in a folk tradition / Sundar Kaali -- The endangered yakshi : careers of an ancient art object in modern India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Genealogy, history, and the law : the case of the rajamala / Indrani Chatterjee -- Village histories : coalescing the past and present / Nandini Sundar -- The two pasts of Nasser's peasants : political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village / Reem Saad -- Writing the riot : between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India / Deepak Mehta -- Re-presenting pasts : Santals in nineteenth-century Bengal / Prathama Banerjee.
1843312247 (hbk.) 1843310945 (pbk.)
2006286114
History--Methodology.
DS435 / .H526 2006
954.0072 / HIS