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'...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low
A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes. For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: “Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument.” Ten years later, Sa...
Essays on India, most written between 1991 and 1996.
An impressive collection of writings on women's issues in Indian history
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 of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography—anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies—will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.
Delve into the fascinating tapestry of India's modern history with "Modern India, 1885-1947" by the esteemed historian Sumit Sarkar, where the dynamic forces of colonialism, nationalism, and social change converge to shape the destiny of a nation on the cusp of independence. In this comprehensive and insightful work, Sarkar traces the trajectory of India's journey from the late 19th century to the brink of independence in 1947, offering readers a nuanced understanding of the political, social, and cultural forces that shaped the modern Indian state. Through meticulous research and engaging prose, Sarkar illuminates key events, personalities, and movements that defined this pivotal period in ...
On the modern history of India.
On a nationalist movement against the 1905 partition of Bengal.