Postcolonial Passages

Contemporary History-writing on India

• Author(s): Saurabh Dube,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 275
• ISBN_10: 0195665082
  ISBN_13: 9780195665086
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Historiography , History / Asia / South / General , History / Asia / South / India , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Social Science / Anthropology / General ,

Description:... Postcolonial Passages brings into dialogue salient writings on the cultural history and the historical anthropology of the Indian subcontinent. In this book, the postcolonial is used as a critical perspective. Taken together, the work carefully questions and incisively elaborates colonialism, empire and community, state and nation, and modernity and its margins, also probing the postcolonial as a category.