| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories |
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Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unarchived histories: The “mad� and the “trifling� -- The limit of history -- Reason and unreason -- “Trifling� violence -- Telling it “as I saw it then� -- “How do you talk about it . . .?� -- The history of the commonplace -- The Chapters that follow -- Notes |
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Part I: The state and its record(s) 2. Peasant as alibi: An itinerary of the archive of colonial Panjab -- The will-to-curiosity of colonial ethnography -- Bhaiya bandobast aya/te chura chhalla lahya! -- A genre of power -- By force of numbers -- History, subalternity and the peasant monopoly -- Notes -- 3. A death without cause: Mary E. Hutchinson�s un-archived life in certified death -- The absence of an oeuvre -- Relationship: Friend -- A death without cause -- Acknowledgments -- Notes |
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4. “Standard deviations�: On archiving the awkward classes in northern PeruAPRA�s unbreachable wall of discipline -- Power, knowledge and representation in crisis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Everyday as archive -- 5. Feminine écriture, trace objects and the death of Braj -- Some problems in theorizing unarchived histories -- Statism -- Status of evidence -- Zone of unintelligibility -- Statism in colonial analysis of gender violence -- Everyday speech -- Historicality of Mahadevi�s scenes of childhood -- Historicality of Mahadevi�s language |
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Notes6. Brown privilege, black labor: Uncovering the significance of Creole women�s work -- Daughters of privilege -- The demands of keeping house -- Homemakers and breadwinners -- Keeping their distance -- From the home to the factory -- Holding on to the past, shaping the future -- Notes -- 7. Unfriendly thresholds: On queerness, capitalism and misanthropy in nineteenth-century America -- The recluse in history -- The “queer� recluse in the Gilded Age -- The female hermit -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Part III: Signs of wonder |
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8. Of kings and gods: The archive of sovereignty in a princely stateThe “state� and the “primitive� in history -- Administrative records: Archiving the “state, � un-archiving the “people� -- The iqrarnama: Intimations of “un-state-like� sovereignty -- Gond peoples and their ancestral deities in colonial anthropological writings -- Anga Dev accounts of the past: Negotiating sovereignty -- Notes -- 9. Geography�s myth: The many origins of Calcutta -- Historical closures -- Historical disclosure -- Conclusion -- Notes |
| Summary |
"Traditional historians hold that there can be no history without an archive. But how is one to write a history of prejudice where the evidence that identifies or signifies its everyday forms and discriminatory behaviour is scrappy and ambiguous? The common sense of polarised race, caste, class or gender relations is articulated in rarely archived, historically unpretty and unacknowledged actions. Out of what archive is the history of these practices, which are not events, not datable or even nameable, to be written? Every instance of archiving is accompanied by a process of 'un-archiving': rendering many aspects of social, cultural, political relations in the past and the present as incidental, chaotic, trivial, inconsequential, and therefore 'unhistorical'. This book investigates the extensive domain of such histories, unarchived in the process of archiving those aspects of the human past and present that have been deemed significant at various times, for various reasons, by states, ruling classes and disciplinary historians. Bringing together contributions covering South Asia, the American South, the US generally, South America, and north Africa, this innovative analysis presents novel interpretations of new sources and insightful reconsiderations of material that lies at the centre of current debates"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 15, 2014) |
| Subject |
Archives -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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History -- Methodology -- Cross-cultural studies
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Archives -- Social aspects
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History -- Methodology
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pandey, Gyanendra
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| ISBN |
9781315856698 |
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1315856697 |
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