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100 _aDeshpande, Prachi
245 _aCreative Pasts:
_bHistorical Memory and Identity in Western India 1700-1960 /
_cby Prachi Deshpande
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_bPermanent Black,
_c2013
300 _ap. XII,308
520 _aThe ‘Maratha period’ of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in Indian history. Prachi Deshpande examines this period for various political projects in the country at large, including anticolonial Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries over the meaning of tradition, culture, colonialism, and modernity. Deploying a rich body of literary and cultural sources, Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern western India, as well as the deep connections between historical and literary narratives. She also shows how ‘historical memory’ provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their national, religious, and regional identities, pointing out history’s pervasive potential for shaping politics within thoroughly diverse societies. A study of quite extraordinary penetration and breadth, Creative Pasts mines Maratha history and Marathi sources as never before to analyse historiography, popular memory, and the socio-literary impact of colonialism on regional societies and cultures. Expanding from this base, the book succeeds also in showing how many of the significant patterns of Indian modernity derive from the interplay of cultural activities, power structures, and political rhetoric over the past two centuries and more.
650 _aHistory
650 _aIndia History
650 _aHistory of India
650 _aPeriod of British Rule in India
650 _aBritish India
650 _aHistory of Freedom Movement
650 _aHistory of Freedom Struggle
650 _aMaratha History
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