Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India (1700-1960)
Book Details
Author(s)Prachi Deshpande
PublisherPermanent Black
ISBN / ASIN817824375X
ISBN-139788178243757
Sales Rank3,450,224
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Language: English
Pages: 320
About The book
The Maratha period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in Indian history. Prachi Deshpande examines the invocation of this period in various political projects, including anticolonial Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries over the meanings of tradition, culture, colonialism, and modernity.
Deploying a rich body of literary and cultural sources, Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern western India, as well as the deep connection between historical and literary narratives. She also shows how historical memory provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their national, religious, and regional identities, pointing out historys pervasive potential for shaping politics within thoroughly divers societies.
A study of quite extraordinary penetration and breadth, Creative Pasts mines Maratha history and Mrathi sources as never before to analyse historiography, popular memory, and the socio-literary impact of colonialism on regional societies and cultures. Expanding from this base, the book succeeds also in showing how many significant patterns of modernity in India are produced by the interplay of culture activities, power structure, and political rhetoric.
About The Author
Prachi Deshpande is Associate Professor of History at the Centre for Studies in Social Science, Culcutta.
Introduction
One of the most striking features of the western Indian region of Maharashtra is the pervasive presence of the past.
A particular period, known as "Maratha history," is physically inscribed into modern cities and towns. Maratha history began in the seventeenth century, when an independent Maratha state was e
Pages: 320
About The book
The Maratha period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in Indian history. Prachi Deshpande examines the invocation of this period in various political projects, including anticolonial Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries over the meanings of tradition, culture, colonialism, and modernity.
Deploying a rich body of literary and cultural sources, Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern western India, as well as the deep connection between historical and literary narratives. She also shows how historical memory provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their national, religious, and regional identities, pointing out historys pervasive potential for shaping politics within thoroughly divers societies.
A study of quite extraordinary penetration and breadth, Creative Pasts mines Maratha history and Mrathi sources as never before to analyse historiography, popular memory, and the socio-literary impact of colonialism on regional societies and cultures. Expanding from this base, the book succeeds also in showing how many significant patterns of modernity in India are produced by the interplay of culture activities, power structure, and political rhetoric.
About The Author
Prachi Deshpande is Associate Professor of History at the Centre for Studies in Social Science, Culcutta.
Introduction
One of the most striking features of the western Indian region of Maharashtra is the pervasive presence of the past.
A particular period, known as "Maratha history," is physically inscribed into modern cities and towns. Maratha history began in the seventeenth century, when an independent Maratha state was e
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