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Creative pasts : historical memory and identity in western India, 1700-1960 / Prachi Deshpande

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The 'OPUS I' SeriesPublisher: Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2007Description: xi, 308 pages; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9788178243757 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 954.79025072 DES 023320
Contents:
Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedicaton; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bakhar Historiography; 2. Representing Maratha Power; 3. History, Print, and Education; 4. Historiography and Nationalism; 5. Region, Nation, and Maratha History; 6. Maratha History and Historical Fiction; 7. Caste, Identity, and Difference; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: The ""Maratha period"" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a ric
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedicaton; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bakhar Historiography; 2. Representing Maratha Power; 3. History, Print, and Education; 4. Historiography and Nationalism; 5. Region, Nation, and Maratha History; 6. Maratha History and Historical Fiction; 7. Caste, Identity, and Difference; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

The ""Maratha period"" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a ric

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