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This volume explores changing notions of the archive in different areas, to trace the ways in which the archive has continued to be used in history. It examines how history, the historian, and the archive interact in many ways to look at the past and record it.
List of contents
1. Introduction
PART I - Documents, historiographies 2. Reconstructing Pre Modern Economic History from the Dutch Archives
3. Demystification and Digitization: India Office Records in the British Library
4. Apres Elton and Carr: History, the Historian, and the Archive
5. Reading the Colonial Archive: The Rungia Gosavi Affair in 1857
6. Contextualizing Archives; Mysorean invasions in Kerala
PART II - Visual and literary 7. Archives in Tibet and their received understanding
8. Archive and Beyond: Literature as Archive/Archives in Literature
9. Nationalism, Historiography and Literature: Water and Chola history
10. History of Everyday archived in Stone and Clay: Case Studies from Early India
PART III - Emerging Archives 11. The Singing of genealogies and Jati Puranas: archiving cosmologies and ethical frameworks within the universe of an Indian village
12. Uday Shankar's
Kalpana as Archive
13. Cyberspace, Archives and Investigation: An Ever-Changing Landscape
About the author
Radhika Seshan retired as Professor and Head of the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly the University of Pune). She is now Visiting Faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune. Within the broad area of medieval Indian history, her research focuses on trade, especially in textiles, and maritime networks. Her most recent publication is a monograph,
Empires of the Sea: A Brief Human History of the Indian Ocean World (2023). Her other works include
Wage Earners in India 1500-1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context, jointly edited with Jan Lucassen (2021), and
Connecting the Indian Ocean World - Across Sea and Land, and
Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land, jointly edited with Ryuto Shimada (Routledge, 2023).
