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Author:   Ranajit Guha
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780674214828

ISBN 10:   067421482
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   15 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Colonialism in South Asia - a dominance without hegemony and its historiography: conditions for a critique of histiography, dominance and its histographies, containment of historiography in a dominant culture, where does historical criticism come from?, the universalizing tendency of capital and its limitations, the general configuration of power in Colonial India; paradoxes of power, idioms of dominance and subordination, order and danda, improvement and dharma, obedience and bhakti, rightful dissent and Dharmic protest; dominance without hegemony - the colonialist moment, over determinations, colonialism as the failure of a universalist project, the fabrication of a spurious hegemony, the bad faith of historiography; preamble to an autocritique. Part 2 Discipline and mobilize - hegemony and elite control in nationalist campaigns: mobilization and hegemony, anticipation of power by mobilization, a fight for prestige; Swadeshi mobilization, poor Nikhilesh, caste sanctions, social boycott, liberal politics, traditional bans, Swadeshi by coercion or consent?; mobilization or non-cooperation, social boycott in non-cooperation, Gandhi's opposition to social boycott, hegemonic claims contested; Gandhian discipline, discpline versus persuasion, two disciplines - elite and subaltern; crowd control and soul control. Part 3 An Indian historiography of India - hegemonic implications of a 19th-century agenda: calling on Indians to write their own history; historiography and the formation of a colonial state, early colonial historiography, three types of narratives, education as an instrument of colonialism, the importance of English; colonialism and the language of the colonized, indigenous languages harnessed to the Raj; novels and histories; begnnings of an indigenous rationalist historiography; an ideaology of ""Matribhaska""; historiography and the question of power, an appropriated past, the theme of ""Kalamka"", ""Bahubol"" and its objects; a failed agenda.

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Over the years, the result of this endeavor has been the production of an eclectic brand of ideological theories, an incisive critique of the existing Indian historiography, and a renewed theoretical fervor, as this book itself epitomizes, for retrieving the history of the subaltern past - their revolutionary political moments and cultural class consciousness. -- Amalendu K. Chakraborty Journal of World History

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