After the Last Post: The Lives of Indian Historiography

Benjamin Zachariah

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2019

After the Last Post

The Lives of Indian Historiography

Benjamin Zachariah

Volume 1 in the series The Politics of Historical Thinking

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643404

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This book is about the production and consumption of history, themes that have gained in importance since the discipline's attempts to disavow its own authority with the ascendancy of postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. Several parallel themes crosscut the book’s central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the collective identity of ‘nation’, ‘community’ or state through a memorialisation process that has much to do with history, or at least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that history-writing and history-reading have been made to perform in public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes. The book addresses a discomfort with postcolonial theories in and as history. Following are essays that examine the state of the discipline, the art of reading and using archives, practices of tracking the history of ideas, and the themes of history, memory and identity.

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Benjamin Zachariah, University of Trier

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
The Politics of Historical Thinking Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface: Reflections on Reflexivity Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: The Instrumentalisation of Historiography and the Production of Victimhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Marking the Posts
1. Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Manifesto on Indirections: Histories, Collective Victimhood and Postcolonialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Part Two. Instrumentalisations
3. The Revolt of Memory: 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Histories of Empire, Imperial Legitimation and the Wartime Career of Penderel Moon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. History, Cinema and the Politics of Cultural Sensitivity in Interwar India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Part Three. Postdiscursive Possibilities
6. Moving Ideas and How to Catch Them Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
7. Travellers in Archives, or the Possibilities of a Post-Post-Archival Historiography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
8. Afterword: Is There a Discipline to This? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 178
Keywords: Historiographie; Postkolonialismus; Identität; Internationale Geschichte; Indien

eBook

Published: July 22, 2019
ISBN: 9783110643404

Hardcover

Published: July 22, 2019
ISBN: 9783110638707