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The essays in this volume describe certain major fields of cultural practice”textual, visual, aural, ritual, and spatial”in which the twin tasks of dealing with the material and the representational, or of explanation and interpretation, have been tackled in the recent historiography of India. Thus, it explores the continuous morphing of the cultural into the worlds of the social and political”the central idea of the book”and brings into a fresh dialogue the cultural materialities and practices of colonial and contemporary India.
This volume is the third in a series on `New Cultural Histories of India` facilitated by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. The present volume provides new insights into some of the key transitions in both subject matter and method that characterize the so-called cultural turn in history writing on India.GautamBhadra
Partha Chatterjee
Swati Chattopadhyay
RosinkaChaudhuri
Prachi Deshpande
TapatiGuha-Thakurta
Kajri Jain
Bodhisattva Kar
RajanKurai Krishnan
Francesca Orsini
Christopher Pinney
Srirupa Roy
Lakshmi Subramanian
Sanjay Srivastava
This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, politics as well as the general reader.
ISBN 9780198090373
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Pages : 492
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