03079oam 2200625I 450 991077968890332120230126203213.01-136-19707-90-203-08528-01-299-45971-41-136-19708-710.4324/9780203085288 (CKB)2550000001018924(EBL)1166559(SSID)ssj0000907332(PQKBManifestationID)11553877(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000907332(PQKBWorkID)10855489(PQKB)11117324(MiAaPQ)EBC1166559(Au-PeEL)EBL1166559(CaPaEBR)ebr10684842(CaONFJC)MIL477221(OCoLC)839301770(OCoLC)846970924(OCoLC)1199301064(FINmELB)ELB134893(EXLCZ)99255000000101892420180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHistory and the making of a modern Hindu self /Aparna DevareNew Delhi :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-86085-7 0-415-59750-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; History and the Making of a Modern Hindu Self; Copyright; Contents; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Historicizing the Politics of History; Chapter 2 Exploring the Contours of History and Religion in Colonial India; Chapter 3 Phule: Historicizing Mythology - A Rationalist Critique; Chapter 4 Phule: Where History Meets Its Other; Chapter 5 Ranade: Using a Modern Historical Gaze on India's Past; Chapter 6 Ranade: Dehistoricizing Religion through a Critical Textual (Re) Interpretation and a Faith-based Critique; Chapter 7 Savarkar: History as a Hegemonic World-viewChapter 8 Savarkar: History, Hindutva and Crafting a Modern Hindu IdentityChapter 9 Conclusion: The Limits of History; Bibliography; About the Author; IndexTaking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growing historical consciousness in contemporary India, especially amongst Hindus. The broad question it poses is: Why has 'history' become such an important site of identity, conflict and self-definition amongst modern Hindus, especially when Hinduism is known to have been notoriously impervious to history? As modern ideas regarding notions of history came to India with colonialism, it turnHinduismHistoryHinduismHistory.294.5Devare Aparna.1545599MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779688903321History and the making of a modern Hindu self3800605UNINA