History in the vernacular / edited by Raziuddin Aquil & Partha Chatterjee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: history in the vernacular / Partha Chatterjee -- History and politics in the vernacular: reflections on medieval and early modern south India / Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Eighteenth-century passages to a History of Mysore / Janaki Nair -- The king of controversy: history and nation-making in late colonial India / Kumkum Chatterjee -- Gait's way: writing history in early-twentieth-century Assam / Arupjyoti Saikia -- Restructuring the past in early-twentieth-century Assam: historiography and Surya Kumar Bhuyan / Sudeshna Purkayastha -- System and history in Rajwade's Grammar for the Dnyaneswari / Milind Wakankar -- Captives of enchantment? Gender, genre, and transmemorisation / Indrani Chatterjee -- Incredible stories in the time of incredible histories: colonial Assam and translations of vernacular geographies / Bodhisattva Kar -- The study of Islam and Indian history at the Darul Musannefin, Azamgarh / Raziuddin Aquil -- 'Searching for old histories": social movements and the project of writing history in twentieth-century Kerala / Sanal Mohan -- History in poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha (Battle of Palashi) (1875) and the question of truth / Rosinka Chaudhuri -- Autobiography as a way of writing history: personal narratives from Kerala and the inhabitation of modernity / Udaya Kumar -- A nineteenth-century romance of counterfactual time / Pradip Kumar Datta.

With reference to India; contributed articles.