Textures of time : writing history in South India, 1600- 1800
Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu
Bok · Engelsk · 2003
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| Utgitt | New York : Other Press , 2003
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| Omfang | xii, 296 s. : ill, kart
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| Opplysninger | Inneholder bibliografiske referanser og indeks. - 1. Introduction: A palette of histories: Listening for history ; Matters of fact ; Letters traced on paper -- 2. On the Battle of Bobbili, January 1757: Introduction: Tiger town ; Bŏbbili-yuddha-katha (1): Bussy's blunders ; Bŏbbili-yuddha-katha (2): Intersecting frames ; Playing with fate : the Pĕdda Bŏbbili Rāju Katha ; "This tragic ground" : colonial perspectives on Bobbili ; Raṅga-rāya caritramu (1): Prehistory ; Raṅga-rāya caritramu (2): "Why should the greedy think nobly?" ; reviewing Bobbili ; Excursus: The Padmanabha War, 1794 -- 3. Of Kaṛanams and kings: Remembering and recording ; The Kakatiya retrospective ; Kumara Rama and Polika Rama ; Minister and king : the Rāya-vācakamu ; The too-clever Karan̥am : on the Tañjāvūri Āndhra Rājula Caritra ; Conclusion -- 4. Senji, 1714: A Bundela among the Tamils ; On fame : two empirical essays ; A history transformed : the Desiṅgu Rāja Katha ; The hero's empty field ; Teyvika Rajan and the shatter-zone state ; Conclusion: On synchronicity -- 5. Tārīkj, Caritra, Bakhar: Senji revisited ; Jaswant Rai : a Brahmin from Ghazni writes Arcot's history ; Jaswant rai on Tej Singh ; From Arabic to Persian ; from pawn to queen : the rise of the Bakhar ; Karṇāṭaka Rājākkal : flattening the loops of time ; Conclusion: The sphere of criculation -- 6. Conclusion: History's warp and weft ; Mistaken identity : Kalhana's Rāja-taraṅgiṇi ; Gangavedi's pseudo-history ; History from below : Dūpāṭi Kaifīyatu.. - "Along with the clock and the railroad, did the British colonists bring the questionable gift of history to India? Generations of Western writers have claimed that historical consciousness did not exist in India before its conquest by the British at the end of the eighteenth century, assuming that Indians in pre-colonial times were indifferent to historical fact and approached their past 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 had been the received wisdom of the West, repeated with little variation by post-colonial historians." "Textures of Time sets 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 a subtle but distinct divide between fact and fiction in South Indian writings and make a clear case for the existence of historical narrative in precolonial India."-
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| Emner | Historiography - India, South
Geschichtsschreibung historie historieteori historiografi Sør-India 1600 tallet 1700 tallet |
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| ISBN | 1590510445. - 9781590510445
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