Title & Author:

Invoking the past : the uses of history in South Asia / edited by Daud Ali.

Publication:

New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Description:

xii, 399 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

SOAS studies on South Asia

Notes:
Conference proceedings.
Published in association with the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Some appropriations of the theory of Aryan race relating to the beginnings of Indian history / Romila Thapar -- Inventing the history of South India / Thomas R. Trautmann -- Being a Brahmin the Marxist way / Dilip Menon -- History textbooks and the transmission of the pre-colonial past in North-western India in the 1860s and 1870s / Avril A. Powell -- Monumental texts / Peter van der Veer -- Time for science / David Arnold -- Use of the past in a public campaign / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Discovering India / Kumkum Chatterjee -- Imperial orders of the past / Sudipta Sen -- Smṛtis and Jātis / Mikael Aktor -- Recovering Babel / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Mahāsena at the Mahāvihāra / Jonathan S. Walters -- History, devotion and the search for Nabhadas of Galta / William Pinch.

Summary:

"The essays in this volume reflect on an undeniably important form of knowledge: history." "The essays in this volume alert us to the problem of the shifting significance and place of the past at different moments in the history of South Asia. They also suggest the need for a more nuanced and sustained examination of the often stereotypical attributes of pre-colonial, colonial, and nationalist history."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195649788
9780195649789

Subject:

Nationalism South Asia Congresses.
Nationalisme Asie méridionale Congrès.
15.75 history of Asia.
Civilization
Nationalism
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschiedwetenschap.
Nationalisme Asie du Sud Congrès.
South Asia History Congresses.
South Asia Civilization Congresses.
South Asia Historiography Congresses.
Asie méridionale Histoire Congrès.
South Asia
Südasien
Asie du Sud Histoire Congrès.
Asie du Sud Historiographie Congrès.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.
Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings
History
History (form)
Congresses (form)

Added entries:

Ali, Daud.
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies.
SOAS studies on South Asia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215258
Call No.: DS340 .I6 1999
Status: Available