Essays of a lifetime : reformers - nationalists - subalterns /

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Author / Creator:	Sarkar, Sumit, 1939- author.
Uniform title:	Works. Selections
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 650 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in Hindu studies SUNY series in Hindu studies.
Subject:	Nationalism -- India. Social change -- India. Nationalism. Social change. India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. Bengal (India) -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. India. India -- Bengal. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13513012

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ISBN:	9781438474335 1438474334 9781438474311 1438474318
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2022).
Summary:	For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: "Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument." Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 1885-1947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkar's finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest.
Other form:	Print version: Sarkar, Sumit, 1939- Works. Selections. Essays of a lifetime. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019] 1438474318 9781438474311

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Bhakti and samaj: social reform and religious modernity
Rammohun Roy and the break with the past
The complexities of "Young Bengal"
The pattern and structure of early nationalist activity in Bengal
The radicalism of intellectuals: a case study of nineteenth-century Bengal
One or many histories? Identity formations in late-colonial Bengal
Kaliyuga, chakri, and bhakti: Ramakrishna and his times
Vidyasagar and Brahmanical society
The Kalki-avatar of Bikrampur: a village scandal in early-twentieth-century Bengal
Part 2. Nationalists and subalterns
Nationalism: ideology and mobilisation
The conditions and nature of subaltern militancy: Bengal from Swadeshi to non-cooperation, 1905-1922
Primitive rebellion and modern nationalism: Forest satyagraha in the non-cooperation and disobedience movements
The logic of Gandhian nationalism: Disobedience and the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, 1930-1931
Popular movements and national leadership, 1945-1947
The return of labour to South Asian history
Part 3. Tributes
Thinking about P.C. Joshi
Edward Thompson
In memory of Eric Hobsbawm.

Essays of a lifetime : reformers - nationalists - subalterns /

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