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History and the Present
Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh (Eds.)
Price
695.00
ISBN
9788178240947
Language
English
Pages
284
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2004
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Permanent Black

The essays in this volume bring together historians and anthropologists to reflect on the place of history and the historical within present-day conditions. The central focus here is on aspects of the popular, on the ways in which the popular relates to the scientific, the professional, the aesthetic, the religious, the legal, and the political.

The essays represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history. They share some of the impulses that had earlier produced movements such as ‘history from below’ as well as Subaltern Studies, which had also opened historiography to the domain of the popular. But this volume also reflects an urge to rethink the place of history in the present.

Partha Chatterjee is the author of A Princely Imposter? The Kumar of Bhawal and the Secret History of Indian Nationalism. A founder member of Subaltern Studies, he is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Anjan Ghosh is a Fellow of the Centre for studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
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