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The history of history [electronic resource] : politics and scholarship in modern India / Vinay Lal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 325 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780199081929 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 907.20954 23
LOC classification:
  • DS435
Online resources: Summary: A contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in India. It narrates the engagement of a civilisation with the historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India.
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Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in India. It narrates the engagement of a civilisation with the historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India.

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