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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.