Writings on the cultural history and the historical anthropology of the Indian subcontinent. In this book, the postcolonial is used as a critical perspective. Taken together, the work questions and incisively elaborates colonialism, empire and community, state and nation, and modernity and its margins, also probing the postcolonial as a category.
The past two decades have seen important departures in the writing of cultural histories and historical ethnographies of India. Today, such scholarship constitutes an integral part of trans-national debates across disciplines. Postcolonial Passages brings
PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: TERMS THAT BIND: COLONY, NATION, MODERNITY; 1. REPRESENTING AUTHORITY IN VICTORIAN INDIA; 6. COMMUNITIES AND THE NATION; 10. ENTANGLED ENDEAVOURS; AFTERWORD: PRESENCE OF EUROPE: A CYBER CONVERSATION WITH DIPESH CHAKRABATY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
The past two decades have seen important departures in the writing of cultural histories and historical ethnographies of India. Today, such scholarship constitutes an integral part of trans-national debates across disciplines. Postcolonial Passages brings
PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: TERMS THAT BIND: COLONY, NATION, MODERNITY; 1. REPRESENTING AUTHORITY IN VICTORIAN INDIA; 6. COMMUNITIES AND THE NATION; 10. ENTANGLED ENDEAVOURS; AFTERWORD: PRESENCE OF EUROPE: A CYBER CONVERSATION WITH DIPESH CHAKRABATY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX