Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India
ISBN: 9781512806458
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: India -- Civilization -- 1765–1947; India -- Civilization -- 1947–; Social change -- India;

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.


Schwarz Henry :

Henry Schwarz is Professor of English at Georgetown University.

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