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Subaltern Spaces Peripheral Genres and Alternate Historiography. This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Introduction Part 1: Investigating Cultural Practices, Fashioning Identities, and Travel Literature 1 John Locke’s India: Religion, Revelation, and Enthusiasm 2 Encountering the ‘Sati’: Early Modern English Travel Narratives and the Politics of Exoticization 3 Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire: Mobility and Cosmopolitan Nationalism Part 2: Alternate Histories, Divergent Concepts, and Subaltern Spaces of Resistance 4 Patriots in Kala Pani? Writing Subaltern Resistance into the Nationalist Memory 5 Reading Bhikshu Bodhanand’s Mool Bharatvasi aur Arya: Reflections on an Alternative History of the ‘Beginnings’ of Indian Civilization 6 Enacting Resistance in History and Fiction: Counter-narratives of Tribal Historiography in Mahasweta Devi’s Writings 7 "We must create a history of India in living terms": Patrick Geddes and Aspects of Sister Nivedita's Writings on Indian History Part 3: Writing History and Engaging with Peripheral Genres 8 Cassetted Emotions: Intimate Songs and Marital Conflicts in the Age of Pravasi (1970-1990) 9 Framing History, Precarity, and Trauma: A Study of Nandita Das’s Firaaq
About the author
Rita Banerjee is Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, India.
Summary
This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.
