Based on a conference at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, in Feb. 1999.
Reprint. Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2002.
Introduction : history and the present / Partha Chatterjee
On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India / Shahid Amin
Mythicising the white man : colonialism and fantasy in a folk tradition / Sundar Kaali
The endangered yakshi : careers of an ancient art object in modern India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Genealogy, history, and the law : the case of the rajamala / Indrani Chatterjee
Village histories : coalescing the past and present / Nandini Sundar
The two pasts of Nasser's peasants : political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village / Reem Saad
Writing the riot : between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India / Deepak Mehta
Re-presenting pasts : Santals in nineteenth-century Bengal / Prathama Banerjee.
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History and the present. ISBN 1843312247. Published by Anthem Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
