History and the present - Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-; Ghosh, Anjan; Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (London ; Des Plaines, IL : Anthem Press, 2006)
Introduction : history and the present / Partha Chatterjee -- On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Shahid Amin -- Mythicising the white man : colonialism and fantasy in a folk tradition / Sundar Kaali -- The endangered yakshi : careers of an ancient art object in modern India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Genealogy, history, and the law : the case of the rajamala / Indrani Chatterjee -- Village histories : coalescing the past and present / Nandini Sundar -- The two pasts of Nasser's peasants : political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village / Reem Saad -- Writing the riot : between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India / Deepak Mehta -- Re-presenting pasts : Santals in nineteenth-century Bengal / Prathama Banerjee.
Based on a conference at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, in Feb. 1999.
Reprint. Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-232).
Keywords: History -- Methodology