Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960

by 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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231124864
• ISBN13: 9780231124867
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"