After the Last Post: The Lives of Indian Historiography
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9780192867865
Publication date:
03/04/2023
Hardback
224 pages
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ISBN:
9780192867865
Publication date:
03/04/2023
Hardback
224 pages
Benjamin Zachariah
The book addresses the question of the politics of historical production in India, while addressing the pitfalls of postcolonial consciousness in the domain of history-writing.
Rights: World Rights
Benjamin Zachariah
Description
This book is about the production and consumption of specifically Indian history, framed by concerns with postmodernism and postcolonialism. Several parallel themes crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the collective identity of 'nation', 'community', or state, through a memorialization process that has much to do with history, or at least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that history-writing and history-reading have played in public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes.
About the author:
Benjamin Zachariah read history at Presidency College, Calcutta, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His published work includes a biography of Nehru (2004), 'Developing India' (2005/2012), 'Nation Games' (2011/2016/2020), and the co-edited volumes 'The Internationalist Moment' (2015) and 'What's Left of Marxism' (2020/2022). He was Reader at the University of Sheffield before moving to Germany where, among other posts, he was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Trier. His research interests centre on historiography and historical thinking in public forums, intellectual histories of the twentieth century, international revolutionary networks, and global fascism.
Benjamin Zachariah
Table of contents
Contents List
Preface to the South Asia Edition
Preface: Reflections on Reflexivity
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Instrumentalization of Historiography and the Production of Victimhood
PART I: MARKING THE POSTS
Chapter 1 Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History
Chapter 2 Manifesto on Indirections: Histories, Collective Victimhood, and Postcolonialism
PART II: INSTRUMENTALIZATIONS
Chapter 3 The Revolt of Memory: 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination
Chapter 4 Histories of Empire, Imperial Legitimation, and the Wartime Career of Penderel Moon
Chapter 5 History, Cinema, and the Politics of Cultural Sensitivity in Interwar India
PART III: POSTDISCURSIVE POSSIBILITIES
Chapter 6 Moving Ideas and How to Catch Them
Chapter 7 Travellers in Archives, or the Possibilities of a Post-Post Archival Historiography
Afterword: Is There a Discipline to This?
Benjamin Zachariah
Review
''This wide-ranging and polemical study unsettles many settled facts of professional historiography and does so with verve and brilliance. Looking back at the age of post-colonialism, post-modernism, post-truth, and many other posts, Benjamin Zachariah uncovers the self-deceptions, anachronisms, and memory lapses that enable historical narratives as well as styles of history-writing. His book is a salutary reminder of the public duty of the historian, and of history's complicated, but always necessary, relation with evidence and the archive. It should be essential reading.'' (Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Department of English, Jadavpur University )
Benjamin Zachariah
Description
This book is about the production and consumption of specifically Indian history, framed by concerns with postmodernism and postcolonialism. Several parallel themes crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the collective identity of 'nation', 'community', or state, through a memorialization process that has much to do with history, or at least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that history-writing and history-reading have played in public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes.
About the author:
Benjamin Zachariah read history at Presidency College, Calcutta, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His published work includes a biography of Nehru (2004), 'Developing India' (2005/2012), 'Nation Games' (2011/2016/2020), and the co-edited volumes 'The Internationalist Moment' (2015) and 'What's Left of Marxism' (2020/2022). He was Reader at the University of Sheffield before moving to Germany where, among other posts, he was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Trier. His research interests centre on historiography and historical thinking in public forums, intellectual histories of the twentieth century, international revolutionary networks, and global fascism.
Table of contents
Contents List
Preface to the South Asia Edition
Preface: Reflections on Reflexivity
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Instrumentalization of Historiography and the Production of Victimhood
PART I: MARKING THE POSTS
Chapter 1 Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History
Chapter 2 Manifesto on Indirections: Histories, Collective Victimhood, and Postcolonialism
PART II: INSTRUMENTALIZATIONS
Chapter 3 The Revolt of Memory: 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination
Chapter 4 Histories of Empire, Imperial Legitimation, and the Wartime Career of Penderel Moon
Chapter 5 History, Cinema, and the Politics of Cultural Sensitivity in Interwar India
PART III: POSTDISCURSIVE POSSIBILITIES
Chapter 6 Moving Ideas and How to Catch Them
Chapter 7 Travellers in Archives, or the Possibilities of a Post-Post Archival Historiography
Afterword: Is There a Discipline to This?
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