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History in the Vernacular / Aquil, Raziuddin & Chatterjee, Partha (Eds.)
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History in the Vernacular
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  Book ID : 34390
  ISBN-10 : 81-7824-301-6 / 8178243016
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-7824-301-6 / 9788178243016
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2010
  Edition : (First Edition)
  Language : English
  xiv, 498p., Index, 21 cm.
   
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CONTENTS:-
1. Introduction: history in the vernacular / Partha Chatterjee.
2. History and politics in the vernacular: reflections on medieval and early modern South India / Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
3. Eighteenth-century passages to a history Mysore / Janaki Nair.
4. The king of controversy: history and nation-making in late colonial India / Kumkum Chatterjee.
5. Gait's way: writing history in early twentieth century Assam / Arupjyoti Saikia.
6. Restructuring the past in early-twentieth century Assam: historiography and Surya Kumar Bhuyan / Sudeshna Purkayastha.
7. System and history in Rajwade's Grammar for the Dnyaneswari / Milind Wakankar.
8. Captives of enchantment? Gender, genre, and transmemoration / Indrani Chatterjee.
9. Incredible stories in the time of credible histories: colonial Assam and translations of vernacular geographies / Bodhisattva Kar.
10. The study of Islam and Indian history at the Darul Musannefin, Azamgarh / Raziuddin Aquil.
11. 'Searching for old histories': social movements and the project of writing history in twentieth-century Kerala / Sanal Mohan.
12. History in poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha (Battle of Palashi) 1875) and the question of truth / Rosinka Chaudhuri.
13. Autobiography as a way of writing history: personal narratives from Kerala and the inhabitation of modernity / Udaya Kumar.
14. A nineteenth-century romance of counterfactual time / Pradip Kumar Datta.

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Historians of India have lately been looking at the place of history in the country, both as an academic discipline and as a mode of public representation of the past. This book explores the status of regional and vernacular histories in relation to academic histories by professional historians.

Was there history writing in India before the British colonial intervention? The stock answer to this question is ‘no’. Other than the Rajatarangini of Kalhana, no ancient text adequately resembles a historical narrative. The itihasa-purana tradition is largely indistinguishable from mythology. The vamsavali and caritra traditions do not really distinguish between the legendary and the historical.

Yet these genres of narrating the past did percolate into India’s regional languages, being later complemented by the Persian court chronicles of Islamic rulers, with the latter showing writing practices much closer to European conventions of history writing.

Looking closely at vernacular contexts and traditions of historical production, the essays in this book question the assumption that there was no history writing in India before colonialism. They suggest that careful and appropriate techniques of reading reveal distinctly indigenous historical narratives. Such narratives may be embedded within non-historical literary genres, such as poems, ballads, and works within the larger itihasa-purana tradition, but they are marked by discursive signs that allow them to be recognized as historical.

Vernacular history traditions in Assam, Bengal, the North-East, Kerala, the Andhra-Tamil region, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh are examined here with fresh archival material and new insights, making this a valuable book for historians, sociologists, and South Asianists.

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