| #3134851 in Books | Sumit Sarkar | 2002-09-20 | 2002-09-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.78 x5.50l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | Beyond Nationalist Frames Postmodernism Hindu Fundamentalism History|||" ... a subtle and illuminating critique of 'post-modernist' influences on contemporary Indian historical writing."--Asian Affairs, November 2004|About the Author||SUMIT SARKAR is Professor of History at Delhi University.
The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian’s intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India’s foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History | Sumit Sarkar. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
