Naheem Jabbar

Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing, the book analyzes the uses made of India's often millennial past by nationalist ideologues who sought a specific solution to India's predicament on its way to becoming a post-colonial state. From independence to the present, it considers the competing visions of India's liberation from her apocalyptical present to be found in the thinking of Gandhi, V.D. Savarkar, Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar as well as V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415488471
• ISBN-10: 0415488478
• Artikelnr.: 26867503

Autorenporträt

Naheem Jabbar is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India Part 1: Re-thinking
Indian Histories 1. Historiography and Narrative 2. The Historical Sense 3.
Hindutva and Writing Postcolonial India 4. B.R. Ambedkar and the Hindu Past
Part 2: Re-imagining Indian Pasts 5. V.S. Naipaul's India: History and the
Myth of Antiquity 6. Salman Rushdie and the Agon of the Past. Conclusion