Textures of time: writing history in South India 1600-1800 (Record no. 62321)

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ISBN 8178240238
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.8025
Item number VEL/T
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Personal name Velcheru Narayana Rao
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Title Textures of time: writing history in South India 1600-1800
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Place of publication Delhi
Name of publisher Permanent Black
Year of publication c2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xii, 296 p.
Other physical details maps
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Summary, etc Along with the clock and the railroad, did the British colonists bring the questionable gift of history to India? Is it true that historical consciousness did not exist in India before its conquest by the British at the end of the nineteenth century, and that the more pristine South India in particular was blessed with an organic, holistic, untainted, child-like temporality?<br/>Generations of Western writers have claimed this to be true: that Southern Indians in pre-colonial times were indifferent to historical fact, and approached their past unsystematically at best, through myth, legend, and story. Nearly a thousand years ago, the great scholar Al-Biruni complained that, "unfortunately, the Hindus do not pay much attention to the historical order of things. They are very careless in relating the chronological succession of kings, and when pressed for information invariably take to tale-telling." Until now this has been the received wisdom of the West, repeated with little variation by post-colonial historians.<br/><br/>Textures of Timesets out not merely to disprove that idea, but to demonstrate through a brilliant blend of storytelling and scholarship the complex forms of history that were produced in South India between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Through a nuanced reading of the rich language of folk epic, courtly poetry, and prose narratives, the authors reveal the divide between fact and fiction in South Indian writings and make a clear case for the existence of historical narrative in pre-colonial India.<br/>Employing a careful reading of and extensive translations from the relevant texts, the book thus sets out to shake some of the deepest-rooted prejudices that exist in the received wisdom on late medieval and early modern India.
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Topical Term Historiography
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Topical Term South India
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Personal name David Dean Shulman
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Personal name Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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LC control number 2002314741
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 15/09/2021 550.00 954.8025 VEL/T 52987 BK

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