History and the present / 
edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh. 
 - Delhi :  Bangalore :  Permanent Black ;  Distributed by Orient Longman,  2002. 
 - ix, 273 p., 12 p. of plates :  ill., maps ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Contributed seminar articles represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history in the present context of India. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788178240947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Historiography.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.0072 CHA