History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200 2000

Guha, Sumit/ Kaimal, Padma (Editor)/ Sivaramakrishnan, K. (Editor)/ Yang, Anand A. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0295746211 ISBN 13: 9780295746210
Editorial: Univ of Washington Pr, 2019
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In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational system and mass production of textbooks that led to unification of historical discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization.

Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to debates beyond the field of history that complicate the understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly post-truth world.

Acerca de los autores: Sumit Guha is professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present (Brill, 2013), Health and Population in South Asia: From Earliest Times to the Present (Permanent Black, 2001), Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200–1991 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818–1941 (Oxford University Press, 1985); and editor of Growth, Stagnation, or Decline? Agricultural Productivity in British India (Oxford University Press, 1992).

Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (Hawai'i, 2005), coeditor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford, 2017), and author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (California, 2021).

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Título: History and Collective Memory in South Asia,...
Editorial: Univ of Washington Pr
Año de publicación: 2019
Encuadernación: Paperback
Condición: Brand New

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