Creative pasts : historical memory and identity in western India, 1700-1960 /
The ""Maratha period"" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Cultures of history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The ""Maratha period"" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a ric |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780231511438 0231511434 |