Description: Calling of History : Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth, Paperback by Chakrabarty, Dipesh, ISBN 0226100456, ISBN-13 9780226100456, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Dipesh Chakrabarty’s eagerly anticipated book examines the politics of history through the careerand in many ways tragic fateof the distinguished historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1). One of the most important scholars in India during the first half of the twentieth century, Sarkar was knighted in 1929 and is still the only Indian historian to have ever been elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Historical Association. He was a universalizing and scientific” historian, highly influential during much of his career, but, by the end of his lifetime, he became marginalized by the history establishment in India. History,” Chakrabarty writes, sometimes plays truant with historians”: by the 1970swhen Chakrabarty himself was a novice historianSarkar was almost completely forgotten. Through Sarkar’s story, Chakrabarty explores the role of historical scholarship in India’s colonial modernity and throws new light on the ways that postcolonial Indian historians embraced a more partisan idea of truth in the name of democratic” and anti-colonial” politics.
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Book Title: Calling of History : Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Calling of History : Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: History & Theory, Asia / India & South Asia, Educators, Historical
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
