Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

by Sumit Sarkar

Book Overview

The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253342031
• ISBN13: 9780253342034
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"