HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN SOUTH ASIA, 1200 2000 - GLOBAL SOUTH ASIA

SUMIT GUHA

ISBN 10: 0295746211 / ISBN 13: 9780295746210

Published by University of Washington Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN SOUTH ASIA, 1200 2000 - GLOBAL SOUTH ASIA
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295746211
• ISBN 13: 9780295746210
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational system and mass production of textbooks that led to unification of historical discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization.

Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to debates beyond the field of history that complicate the understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly post-truth world.

About the Author

Sumit Guha is professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present and Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200–1991.