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History and the making of a modern Hindu self /

Taking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growing historical consciousness in contemporary India, especially amongst Hindus. The broad question it p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Devare, Aparna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York ; New Delhi : Routledge, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : historicizing the politics of history
  • Exploring the contours of history and religion in colonial India
  • Phule : historicizing mythology : a rationalist critique
  • Phule : where history meets its other
  • Ranade : using a modern historical gaze on India's past
  • Ranade : dehistoricizing religion through a critical textual (re)interpretation and a faith-based critique
  • Savarkar : history as a hegemonic world-view
  • Savarkar : history, Hindutva and crafting a modern Hindu identity
  • Conclusion : the limits of history.