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200 10$aHistory and the making of a modern Hindu self /$fAparna Devare
210  1$aNew Delhi :$cRoutledge,$d2011.
215   $a1 online resource (251 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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-view
327   $aChapter 8 Savarkar: History, Hindutva and Crafting a Modern Hindu IdentityChapter 9 Conclusion: The Limits of History; Bibliography; About the Author; Index
330   $aTaking 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 turn
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