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Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India (Paperback)
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Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
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A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In
the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule,
Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and
suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of
imaginative ways. This book is a critical analysis of 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. It examines some of the archetypal elements in
historical consciousness that find their echo in often brutal
unhistorical ways in everyday life. This book is a valuable
resource for researchers interested in South Asian History,
Historiography or Theory of History, Cultural Studies, English
Literature, Post Colonial Writing and Literary Criticism.
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