History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000

by Sumit Guha

Book Overview

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295746211
• ISBN13: 9780295746210
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher