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Talking History - Ramin Jahanbegloo, Romila Thapar, Neeladri Bhattacharya

Talking History

Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya
Buch | Hardcover
368 Seiten
2017
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-947427-1 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
This work is an interview of Romila Thapar, one of the most prominent historians from India. She discusses her life and career, as well as important concepts and issues in the discipline of history.
Talking History is the eighth title in the OUP series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's conversations with prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought. This volume excavates the life and career of Romila Thapar as a historian and a public intellectual. Her multifaceted work, from her early research on Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas to her classic studies on the lineage system in India, her questioning of the dominant paradigms of historians from both the colonial era and from the more recent nationalist era to the role of a public intellectual in India, have made her one of the most frequently read, discussed, and cited historians of our times.

Across the six parts of the book, Jahanbegloo probes her to talk about some of the central issues of history writing in India, such as the function of a historian, conflict with Hindu fundamentalism, authority in historical research, oriental despotism, and the polymorphous structure of Hinduism, as also about her life.

Ramin Jahanbegloo is professor and vice dean and executive director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. Romila Thapar is a renowned historian whose area of study is ancient India. She is the professor emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Neeladri Bhattacharya is a professor at the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has researched and published on the making of the colonial rural order, custom, law and modernity, colonial power and discourse, and practices of history writing. His publications include Essays on the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture (1986, co-edited), Labouring Histories: Agrarian Labour and Colonialism (2004), and numerous articles on colonialism and agrarian society, and the representation of history.

PART I: FROM PUNJAB TO LONDON; PART II: THE FUNCTION OF THE HISTORIAN; PART III: MODERN WRITING OF EARLY INDIAN HISTORY; PART IV: LINEAGE AND KINGSHIP; PART V: THE HISTORIAN AND THE EPIC; PART VI: SHAKUNTALA AND SOMANATHA

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New Delhi
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 224 mm
Gewicht 538 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-947427-3 / 0199474273
ISBN-13 978-0-19-947427-1 / 9780199474271
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