TY - BOOK ID - 70114179 TI - Historiography and writing postcolonial India PY - 2009 SN - 9780415488471 0415488478 9780203876688 9781134010356 9781134010394 9781134010400 9780415672269 PB - London New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - English literature KW - History. KW - South Asian authors KW - History and criticism. KW - India KW - Historiography. KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - South Asian authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Nationalisme KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Inde KW - Histoire KW - Auteurs d'origine indienne (de l'Inde) KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature anglaise UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:70114179 AB - A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a critical analysis of the uses made of India's often millennial past by nationalist ideologues who sought a specific solution to India's predicament on its way to becoming a post-colonial state. From independence to the present, it considers the competing visions of India's liberation from her apocalyptical present to be found in the thinking of Gandhi, V. D. Savarkar, Nehru and B. R. Ambedkar as well as V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie. It examines some of the archetypal elements in historical consciousness that find their echo in often brutal unhistorical ways in everyday life. This book is a valuable resource for researchers interested in South Asian History, Historiography or Theory of History, Cultural Studies, English Literature, Post Colonial Writing and Literary Criticism. ER -