| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : historicizing the politics of history -- Exploring the contours of history and religion in colonial India -- Phule : historicizing mythology : a rationalist critique -- Phule : where history meets its other -- Ranade : using a modern historical gaze on India's past -- Ranade : dehistoricizing religion through a critical textual (re)interpretation and a faith-based critique -- Savarkar : history as a hegemonic world-view -- Savarkar : history, Hindutva and crafting a modern Hindu identity -- Conclusion : the limits of history |
| Summary |
Taking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growing historical consciousness in contemporary India, especially amongst Hindus. The broad question it poses is: Why has 'history' become such an important site of identity, conflict and self-definition amongst modern Hindus, especially when Hinduism is known to have been notoriously impervious to history? As modern ideas regarding notions of history came to India with colonialism, it turn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Phule, Jotīrāva Govindarāva, 1827-1890 -- Political and social views
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Ranade, Mahadev Govind, Rao Bahadur, 1842-1901 -- Political and social views
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Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, 1883-1966 -- Political and social views
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Phule, Jotīrāva Govindarāva, 1827-1890 |
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Ranade, Mahadev Govind, Rao Bahadur, 1842-1901 |
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Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, 1883-1966 |
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Hinduism -- History.
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Hindus -- India -- History
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Identification (Religion)
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General.
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Hinduism
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Hindus
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Identification (Religion)
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Political and social views
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India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136197086 |
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1136197087 |
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