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100			_aMenon, Dilip M. (ed.)
245		0	_aCultural history of modern India / _cedited by Dilip M.Menon
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bSocial Science Press
260			_c2006
300			_a175 p.
365			_b9000
365			_dRS
502			_aReadings in history
520			_aThe History of modern India has been narrated largely in terms of the nationalist movement, personalities and what has been seen as the high politics of the state. Recent shifts in history writing have tried to bring in subordinated histories of regions and of groups. We are moving towards a wider understanding of politics, history and of the ordinary people who make history. This collection tries to push the emerging paradigm further by moving away from conventional notions of the history of the nation and indeed of the political. The six essays in this collection present original and pioneering forays in the study of cricket, oral history, gender studies, film, popular culture and Indian classical music. Whether looking at issues of caste on the seemingly level playing field of cricket in early twentieth century India; or how a nineteenth century housewife comes to pen the first autobiography by an Indian woman; calendar art reflecting deeper notions of religion and community; or how an idea of pure classical music faces the challenge of technology, these essays show how ideas of self, community and art are formed within a larger politics. Moreover, culture far from being a refuge from the political is also the space within which politics comes to be worked out.
650			_aCulture and history-ndia
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