The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India

By Vinay Lal

Book Overview

A radical contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in modern India. It narrativizes the engagement of a civilization 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, and interact with the mythic, the ahistorical, and the folk. The endeavor is not to offer a comprehensive account over the last two centuries, but rather to explore the manner in which historical thinking inserted itself into
the public domain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195672445
• ISBN13: 9780195672442
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 338 Pages