Creative pasts : historical memory and identity in western India, 1700-1960 / Prachi Deshpande.

The ""Maratha period"" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this...

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Main Author: Deshpande, Prachi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Series:Cultures of history.
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Summary:The ""Maratha period"" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a ric
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 308 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) and index.
ISBN:9780231511438
0231511434
Language:In English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized