TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lal,Vinay
TI  - The history of history: politics and scholarship in modern India [electronic resource] 
SN  - 9780199081929 (ebook) :
AV  - DS435 
U1  - 907.20954 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Delhi, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - Modern India
N1  - Originally published: 2003; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - A contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in India. It narrates the engagement of a civilisation with the historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195672442.001.0001
ER  -