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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 (Paperback)
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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 (Paperback)
Series: Global South Asia
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In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian
past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical
memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the
result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation,
recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes
work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the
historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India;
the creation of the centralized educational system and mass
production of textbooks that led to unification of historical
discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these
discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism
and decolonization. Guha brings together sources from a range of
languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of
the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been
made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to
debates beyond the field of history that complicate the
understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly
post-truth world.
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