Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Introduction

I. Colonial Times: Clocks and Kali-yuga

II. Identities and Histories: Some Lower-Caste Narratives from Early Twentieth-Century Bengal

III. Intimations of Hindutva: Ideologies, Caste, and Class in Post-Swadeshi Bengal

IV. Two Muslim Tracts for Peasants: Bengal 1909-1910

V. Nationalism and "Stri-Swadhinata": The Contexts and Meanings of Rabindranath's Ghare-Baire

VI. Postmodernism and the Writing of History
VII. The BJP Bomb and Nationalism

VIII. Christianity, Hindutva, and the Question of Conversions

IX. Hindutva and History

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Reflections on the practice of history and contemporary politics by one of India's most eminent historians.

About the Author

SUMIT SARKAR is Professor of History at Delhi University. His books include Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908; Bibliographical Survey of Social Reform Movements; Popular Movements and Middle-Class Leadership in Late-Colonial India; Modern India 1885-1947; A Critique of Colonial India; and Writing Social History.

Reviews

" ... a subtle and illuminating critique of 'post-modernist' influences on contemporary Indian historical writing."--Asian Affairs, November 2004