Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India / / Henry Schwarz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Schwarz, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Histories
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Ruse of Progress --; 1. Liberal Nationalist Histories --; 2. Radical Nationalist Histories --; 3. Marxist/Materialist Histories --; 4. Transitions: Mediation and Irony --; 5. Subaltern Studies: Radical History in the Metaphoric Mode --; 6. Conclusion: Irony as Tragedy --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512806458; 9783110649680; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512806458
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Henry Schwarz.

Analyzes Indian cultural histories written between 1870 and the present. Focuses on English-language texts by Bengali historians on the subject of literature and culture, and compares Indian writing on cultural heritage to the dominant forms of European historiography prevalent during the colonial period.