Writing Social History

The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial domination. Sumit Sarkar makes a powerful case for the importance of richly-detailed, nuanced social history.

History

Sarkar, Sumit

Asia

Oxford University Press

The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial domination. Sumit Sarkar makes a powerful case for the importance of richly-detailed, nuanced social history.

The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian’s intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India’s foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore’s fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography―anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies―will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

Americas

Indiana University Press

'...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low

Modern India 1885–1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes. For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: “Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument.” Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 1885–1947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkar’s finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest.

Essays of a Lifetime: Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies)

State Univ of New York Pr

A distillation of the historian's finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

Essays of a Lifetime (Suny Hindu Studies)

State University of New York Press

The political context in which the historian of india finds himself today, says sumit sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the hindu right and globalised forms of capitalism simultaneously, the historians intellectual context is now dominated by the marginalisation of marxism and a shift to cultural studies and postmodern critiques in this scenario, how may a thinking historian practice the craft of history? the theme which unites these essays is sumit sarkars consistent critique of the limits of nationalist frames he shows that despite there divergent forms chauvinistic or beneign, political-statist or culturalist nationalist frameworks have limited modern south asian history sarkar argues for moving towards flexibly marxian social history and politics imbued with democratic, socialist-feminist, and internationlist values the hindu bomb, the history of relations between communities, the issue of relegious propogation and conversion, ideas of nation and women in tagores fiction, and

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, History [Jan 01, 2004] Sarkar, Sumit

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Permanent Black

Business managers make decisions in an interactive strategic environment that resembles games. ‘Out-Think’ makes game theoretic concepts usable for strategic decision-makers and functional managers. The book exposes the reader to game theory concepts using examples not only from the domain of business, but also from the fields of professional sports, parlour games like chess, poker etc., and military practices.

Out-think!: How to Use Game Theory to Outsmart Your Competition

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

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Writing Social History

Writing Social History

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

Modern India 1885–1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series)

Essays of a Lifetime: Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies)

Essays of a Lifetime (Suny Hindu Studies)

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, History [Jan 01, 2004] Sarkar, Sumit

Out-think!: How to Use Game Theory to Outsmart Your Competition