{"product_id":"invoking-past-uses-of-history-in-south-asia-idf061","title":"Invoking the Past: The Uses of History in South Asia","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eIDF061\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/sa\/book-author\/edited%20by%20daud%20ali\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Edited By: Daud Ali\"\u003eEdited By: Daud Ali\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/sa\/book-publisher\/oxford%20university%20press%20new%20delhi\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Oxford University Press, New Delhi\"\u003eOxford University Press, New Delhi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e2002\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e0195659120\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e411\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e8.6\" X 5.5\"\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back of the Book :\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e The essays in this volume reflect on an undeniably important form of knowledge: history. They explore the variety of 'uses' of history in South Asia. Colonial and nationalist themes occupy the first two sections of the book, which take up topics like the racialization of history and its political appropriation for right and left-wing agendas, as well as the nationalist and Hindutva recasting of the past of Indologists, scientists, doctors and travel-writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The final section focuses on a wide range of pre-colonial materials, from Sanskritic uses of the past in the theory of mixed castes to Sri Lankan and north Indian debates about religious community and history, from Mughal imperial pasts to south Indian innovations. This section reveals a complexity of traditions rarely acknowledged by those who attribute history to the coming of modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The essays in this volume alert us to the problem of the shifting significance and place of the past at different moments in the history of South Asia. They also suggest the need for a more nuanced and sustained examination of the often stereotypical attributes of pre-colonial, and nationalist history. This book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author :\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDaud Ali\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Early Indian History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eExcerpts From Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 'The range of essays drawn from various regions and times offer... a rich and many-layered interpretation of the uses to which the past has been put, enriching our understanding of history.' \u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eJournal of the School of Oriental and African Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 'The ease with which the essays range through the concepts of temporality, narrativity, authenticity, memory, polity and social identities in the context of the seemingly inexhaustible range of south Asian texts... is remarkable.' \u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"15\" width=\"100%\"\u003e \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Contributors\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e xi\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Introduction\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaud Ali\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 1\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeginnings: Race, Language and Region in the Making the Past\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"3%\"\u003e 1. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd width=\"85%\"\u003e Some Appropriations of the Theory of Aryan Race Relating to the Beginnings of Indian History\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomila Thaper\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 15\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 2. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Inventing the History of South India\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas R. Trautmann\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 36\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 3. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Being a Brahmin the Marxist Way: E.M.S. Nambudiripad and the Pasts of Kerala\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDilip Menon\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 55\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eII.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003cb\u003eThinking the Past as History: Nationalist Configurations\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 4. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e History Textbooks and the Transmission of the Pre-colonial Past in North-western India in the 1860s and 1870s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvril A. Powell\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 91\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 5. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Monumental Texts: The Critical Edition of India's National Heritage\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Van der Veer\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 134\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 6. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e A Time for Science: Past and Present in the Reconstruction of Hindu Science, 1860-1920\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Arnold\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 156\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 7. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Use of the Past in a Public Campaign: Ayurvedic \u003ci\u003ePrachar\u003c\/i\u003e in the Writings of Bhai Mohan Singh Vaid\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKavita Sivaramakrishnan\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 178\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 8. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Discovering India; Travel, History and Identity in Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-century India\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKumkum Chatterjee\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeyond History?: Memory, Heterogeneity, Community\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 9. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Imperial Orders of the Past: The Semantics of History and Time in the Medieval Indo-Persianate Culture of North India\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSudipta Sen\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 231\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 10. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003ci\u003eSmrtis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJatis\u003c\/i\u003e: The Ritualization of Time and the Continuity of the Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMikael Aktor\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 258\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 11. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Recovering Babel: Polyglot Histories from the Eighteenth-century Tamil Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSanjay Subrahmanyam\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 280\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e 12. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Mahasena at the Mahavihara: On the Interpretation and Politics of History in Pre-colonial Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan S. 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