Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography

ISBN-13: 9780367435318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 174 str.

Rita Banerjee

Opis

This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Investigating Cultural Practices, Fashioning Identities, and Travel Literature  1 John Locke’s India: Religion, Revelation, and Enthusiasm  2 Encountering the ‘Sati’: Early Modern English Travel Narratives and the Politics of Exoticization  3 Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire: Mobility and Cosmopolitan Nationalism  Part 2: Alternate Histories, Divergent Concepts, and Subaltern Spaces of Resistance 4 Patriots in Kala Pani? Writing Subaltern Resistance into the Nationalist Memory  5 Reading Bhikshu Bodhanand’s Mool Bharatvasi aur Arya: Reflections on an Alternative History of the ‘Beginnings’ of Indian Civilization  6 Enacting Resistance in History and Fiction: Counter-narratives of Tribal Historiography in Mahasweta Devi’s Writings  7 "We must create a history of India in living terms": Patrick Geddes and Aspects of Sister Nivedita's Writings on Indian History  Part 3: Writing History and Engaging with Peripheral Genres  8 Cassetted Emotions: Intimate Songs and Marital Conflicts in the Age of Pravasi (1970-1990)  9 Framing History, Precarity, and Trauma: A Study of Nandita Das’s Firaaq

O autorze

Rita Banerjee is Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, India.