Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960
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Main Author: Deshpande, Prachi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2007
Series:Cultures of History
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The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a rich body of litera
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (584 p)
ISBN:9780231511438

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