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After the Last Post - The Lives of Indian Historiography (Hardcover)
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After the Last Post - The Lives of Indian Historiography (Hardcover)
Series: The Politics of Historical Thinking
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This book is about the production and consumption of history,
themes that have gained in importance since the discipline's
attempts to disavow its own authority with the ascendancy of
postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. Several parallel themes
crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its
intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to
memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the
collective identity of 'nation', 'community' or state through a
memorialisation process that has much to do with history, or at
least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of
this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that
history-writing and history-reading have been made to perform in
public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes. The
book addresses a discomfort with postcolonial theories in and as
history. Following are essays that examine the state of the
discipline, the art of reading and using archives, practices of
tracking the history of ideas, and the themes of history, memory
and identity.
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