Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

Informationen zum Autor Naheem Jabbar is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Klappentext A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing, the book analyzes 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. Zusammenfassung Offers an examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. This book examines some of the archetypal elements in historical consciousness that find their echo in often brutal unhistorical ways in everyday life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India Part 1: Re-thinking Indian Histories 1. Historiography and Narrative 2. The Historical Sense 3. Hindutva and Writing Postcolonial India 4. B.R. Ambedkar and the Hindu Past Part 2: Re-imagining Indian Pasts 5. V.S. Naipaul’s India : History and the Myth of Antiquity 6. Salman Rushdie and the Agon of the Past. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Naheem Jabbar, JABBAR NAHEEM
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2009
• EAN: 9780415488471
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48847-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History; Routledge Studies in South Asi; Routledge Studies in South Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous