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Ahmad, Aijaz. Orientalism and after: ambivalences and metropolitan location in the work of Edward Said, in, In theory: classes, nations, literatures. London: Verso, 1992; Delhi: 1993.

Ahmad, Aijaz. Between orientalism and historicism: anthropological knowledge about India. ‘Studies in History’ (7)1: January-June 1991

Ali, Athar. The eighteenth century: an interpretation. ‘The Indian Historical Review’ (5)1-2: 1978-9.

Ali, Athar. Towards an interpretation of the Mughal empire. ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland’ 1: 1978.

Amin, Shahid. Alternative histories: a view from India. Sephis – CSSSC lecture, Amsterdam; Calcutta, 2002.

Basu, Tapan, et al. Khaki shorts and saffron flags: a critique of Hindutva today (Tracts for the Times). Delhi: Orient Longman, 1993.

Bayly, C.A. Returning the British to South Asian history: the limits of colonial hegemony. ‘South Asia’ 17(2), 1994. Reprinted in Bayly, Origins of nationality in South Asia: patriotism and ethical government in the making of modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bhattacharya, Neeladri. Myth, history and the politics of Ramjanambhoomi, in S. Gopal (ed), Anatomy of a confrontation: the Babri Masjid-Ramjanambhumi issue. Delhi: Penguin India, 1991.

Bhattacharya, Neeladri. Rethinking marxist history. ‘Seminar’ 326: October 1986.

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi and Romila Thapar (eds). Situating Indian history. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi. History from below. ‘Social Scientist’ (11): 4 April 1983. (Presidential address, Indian History Congress, Modern Indian history, 1982.)

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi. Paradigms lost: notes on social history in India. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ (annual number) : April 1982.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. A small history of subaltern studies, in Henry Schwartz and Sangeeta Ray (eds) A companion to post colonial studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; reprinted in Chakrabarty, Habitations of modernity: essays in the wake of subaltern studies. Delhi: Permanent Black; Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Postcoloniality and the artifice of history: who speaks for ‘Indian’ pasts. ‘Representations’ (37), Winter 1992. Reprinted in Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: post colonial thought and historical difference. Princeton, 2000; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Minority histories and subaltern pasts. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 33(9): 28 February-6 March 1998.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Subaltern histories and post-enlightenment rationalism. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 8 April 1995.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Class consciousness and the Indian working class: dilemmas of marxist historiography. ‘Journal of Asian and African Studies’ 23(1-2): 1988.

Chakravarti, Uma. Beyond the altekarian paradigm: towards a new understanding of gender relations in early Indian history. ‘Social Scientist’ 16(8). Reprinted in Kumkum Roy (ed), Women in early Indian societies: readings in early Indian history. Delhi: Manohar, 2001.

Chakravarti, Uma. Whatever happenned to the Vedic dasi? orientalsim, nationalism and a script for the past, in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (eds), Recasting women: essays in colonial history. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.

Chakravarti, Uma. In search of the past: a review of the limitations and possibilities of the historiography of women in early India. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ (23): 1988.

Chandra, Bipan, Harbans Mukhia and Romila Thapar. Communalism and the writing of Indian history. Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1969.

Chandra, Bipan. The use of history, in Chandra, Communalism in modern India. Delhi: Vikas (Vani Educational Books), 1984.

Chandra, Satish. Writings on social history of medieval India: trends and prospects. ‘Indian Historical Review’ (3): 1976-77.

Chatterjee, Partha and Anjan Ghosh (eds). History and the present. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Chatterjee, Partha. Claims on the past; the genealogy of modern historiography in Bengal, in David Arnold and David Hardiman (eds), Subaltern studies IX. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Chattopadhyaya, B.D. Cultural plurality: historiography and pedagogy in contemporary India. History, archaeology and other issues. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003 (forthcoming).

Chattopadhyaya, B.D. Confronting fundamentalisms: the possibilities of early Indian history. ‘Studies in History’ 18(1): January-June 2002.

Dalmia, Vasudha. Vernacular histories in late nineteenth century Benaras: folklore, puranas and the new antiquarianism. ‘The Indian Economic and Social History Review’ 38(1): January-March 2001.

De, Barun. A historiographical critique of renaissance analogues for nineteenth century India, in De (ed), Perspectives in social sciences. Calcutta: 1979.

Dirks, Nicholas. Castes of mind: colonialism and the making of modern India, Princeton: 2001. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Guha, Ramachandra. Writing environmental history in India. ‘Studies in History’ 9(1): January-June 1993.

Guha, Ranajit. An Indian historiography of India: a nineteenth century agenda and its implications. Calcutta: 1988. Also reprinted in Guha, Dominance without hegemony: history and power in colonial India. Cambridge, Mass: 1997.

Habib, Irfan. An examination of Wittfogel’s theory of ‘oriental despotism’. ‘Enquiry’ 6.

Habib, Irfan. Problems of marxist historiography. ‘Social Scientist’ 16(12): December 1988.

Hasan, Mushirul. The myth of unity: colonial and national narratives, in David Ludden (ed), Making India Hindu: religion, community, and the politics of democracy in India. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Press, 1996; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Kosambi, D.D. Marxism and ancient Indian culture. ‘Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’ 29: 1948. Reprinted in B.D. Chattopadhyaya (ed), Methodology in indology and other writings: D.D. Kosambi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kosambi, D.D. The basis of ancient Indian history, I & II. ‘Journal of American and Oriental Society’ 75: 1965. Reprinted in Chattopadhyaya (ed) D.D. Kosambi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kosambi, D.D. What constitutes Indian history. ‘Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’ 35: 1955. Reprinted in Chattopadhyaya (ed), D.D. Kosambi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kumar, Krishna. Prejudice and pride. New Delhi: Viking, 2001.

Ludden, David (ed). Reading subaltern studies. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Nandy, Ashis. History’s forgotten doubles, in history and theory, theme issue 34: World Historians and their Critiques, 1995.

O’Hanlon, Rosalind and David Washbrook. After orientalism: culture, criticism and the politics in the third world. ‘Comparatives Studies in Society and History’ 34(1): January 1992.

Panikkar, K.N. Historiographical and conceptual questions, in Panikkar, Culture, ideology and hegemony: intellectuals and social consciousness in colonial India. New Delhi: Tulika, 1995.

Philips, C.H. (ed). Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Prakash, Gyan. Can the ‘subaltern’ ride? a reply to O’Hanlon and Washbrook. ‘Comparative Studies in Society and History’ 34(1): January 1992.

Prakash, Gyan. Writing post-orientalist histories of the third world: perspectives from Indian historiography. ‘Comparative Studies in Society and History’ 32: 1990.

Rangarajan, Mahesh. Polity, ecology and landscape: new writings on South Asia’s past. ‘Studies in History’ (18)1: January-June 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. Beyond nationalist frames. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. Hindutva and history, in Sarkar, Beyond nationalist frames: relocating postmodernism, Hindutva and history. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. Postmodernism and the writing of history. ‘Studies in History’ 15(2), ns 1999. Reprinted in Sarkar, Beyond nationalist frames. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. The decline of the subaltern in subaltern studies, in Sarkar, Writing social history. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Sarkar, Sumit. Popular culture, community, power: three studies of modern Indian social history. ‘Studies in History’ 8(2): July-December 1992.

Sarkar, Sumit. Social history; predicaments and possibilities. Presidential address, proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 55 the session, Annamalai, 1985. Reprinted in ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: June 1995.

Sarkar, Tanika. Woman is a political animal: women’s histories, feminist writings. Indian History Congress: Delhi, 1999.

Sarkar, Tanika. Educating the children of Hindurashtra: a note on RSS schools, in P. Bidwai, H. Mukhia and A. Vanaik (eds), Religion, religiosity and communalism. Delhi: Manohar, 1996.

Sharma, R.S. Historiography of the ancient Indian social order, in Sharma, Perspectives in social and economic history of early India. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983.

Sharma, R.S. (ed) Survey of research in economic and society of India. Delhi: ICSSR, Ajanta Publishers, 1980.

Sharma, R.S. Indian feudalism retouched. ‘Indian Historical Review’ 2: 1974.

Stein, Burton. State formation and economy reconsidered. ‘Modern Asian Studies’ 19: 1985.

Stein, Burton. The segmentary state in South Indian history, in R.G. Fox (ed), Realm and region in traditional India. New Delhi: 1977.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay and Muzaffar Alam. The Mughal state, 1526-1750. Themes in Indian history series. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. The Mughal state: structure or process: reflections on recent western historiography. ‘The Indian Economic and Social History Review’ 29(3): 1992.

Thapar Romila. Early India: an overview, in Thapar, general president’s address – Indian history congress, Burdwan 1983. Published in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. Reprinted in Romila Thapar, Cultural pasts. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Thapar Romila. (ed). Recent perspectives of early Indian history. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1995.

Thapar Romila. Society and historical consciousness: the Itihasapurana tradition, in R. Thapar, Cultural pasts.

Thapar Romila. Ideology and interpretation of early Indian history. Lecture delivered at Cornell University, 1974. Reprinted in R. Thapar, Cultural pasts.

Thapar Romila. Theory of Aryan race in India: history and politics, in R. Thapar, Cultural pasts.

Washbrook, D.A. Progress and problems: South Asian economic and social history, 1720-1860. ‘Modern Asian Studies’ 22(1): 1988.

Further reading

Ahmad, Aijaz. Orientalism and after: ambivalences and metropolitan location in the work of Edward Said, in, In theory: classes, nations, literatures. London: Verso, 1992; Delhi: 1993.

Ahmad, Aijaz. Between orientalism and historicism: anthropological knowledge about India. ‘Studies in History’ (7)1: January-June 1991

Ali, Athar. The eighteenth century: an interpretation. ‘The Indian Historical Review’ (5)1-2: 1978-9.

Ali, Athar. Towards an interpretation of the Mughal empire. ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland’ 1: 1978.

Amin, Shahid. Alternative histories: a view from India. Sephis – CSSSC lecture, Amsterdam; Calcutta, 2002.

Basu, Tapan, et al. Khaki shorts and saffron flags: a critique of Hindutva today (Tracts for the Times). Delhi: Orient Longman, 1993.

Bayly, C.A. Returning the British to South Asian history: the limits of colonial hegemony. ‘South Asia’ 17(2), 1994. Reprinted in Bayly, Origins of nationality in South Asia: patriotism and ethical government in the making of modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bhattacharya, Neeladri. Myth, history and the politics of Ramjanambhoomi, in S. Gopal (ed), Anatomy of a confrontation: the Babri Masjid-Ramjanambhumi issue. Delhi: Penguin India, 1991.

Bhattacharya, Neeladri. Rethinking marxist history. ‘Seminar’ 326: October 1986.

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi and Romila Thapar (eds). Situating Indian history. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi. History from below. ‘Social Scientist’ (11): 4 April 1983. (Presidential address, Indian History Congress, Modern Indian history, 1982.)

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi. Paradigms lost: notes on social history in India. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ (annual number) : April 1982.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. A small history of subaltern studies, in Henry Schwartz and Sangeeta Ray (eds) A companion to post colonial studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; reprinted in Chakrabarty, Habitations of modernity: essays in the wake of subaltern studies. Delhi: Permanent Black; Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Postcoloniality and the artifice of history: who speaks for ‘Indian’ pasts. ‘Representations’ (37), Winter 1992. Reprinted in Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: post colonial thought and historical difference. Princeton, 2000; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Minority histories and subaltern pasts. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 33(9): 28 February-6 March 1998.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Subaltern histories and post-enlightenment rationalism. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 8 April 1995.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Class consciousness and the Indian working class: dilemmas of marxist historiography. ‘Journal of Asian and African Studies’ 23(1-2): 1988.

Chakravarti, Uma. Beyond the altekarian paradigm: towards a new understanding of gender relations in early Indian history. ‘Social Scientist’ 16(8). Reprinted in Kumkum Roy (ed), Women in early Indian societies: readings in early Indian history. Delhi: Manohar, 2001.

Chakravarti, Uma. Whatever happenned to the Vedic dasi? orientalsim, nationalism and a script for the past, in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (eds), Recasting women: essays in colonial history. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.

Chakravarti, Uma. In search of the past: a review of the limitations and possibilities of the historiography of women in early India. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ (23): 1988.

Chandra, Bipan, Harbans Mukhia and Romila Thapar. Communalism and the writing of Indian history. Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1969.

Chandra, Bipan. The use of history, in Chandra, Communalism in modern India. Delhi: Vikas (Vani Educational Books), 1984.

Chandra, Satish. Writings on social history of medieval India: trends and prospects. ‘Indian Historical Review’ (3): 1976-77.

Chatterjee, Partha and Anjan Ghosh (eds). History and the present. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Chatterjee, Partha. Claims on the past; the genealogy of modern historiography in Bengal, in David Arnold and David Hardiman (eds), Subaltern studies IX. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Chattopadhyaya, B.D. Cultural plurality: historiography and pedagogy in contemporary India. History, archaeology and other issues. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003 (forthcoming).

Chattopadhyaya, B.D. Confronting fundamentalisms: the possibilities of early Indian history. ‘Studies in History’ 18(1): January-June 2002.

Dalmia, Vasudha. Vernacular histories in late nineteenth century Benaras: folklore, puranas and the new antiquarianism. ‘The Indian Economic and Social History Review’ 38(1): January-March 2001.

De, Barun. A historiographical critique of renaissance analogues for nineteenth century India, in De (ed), Perspectives in social sciences. Calcutta: 1979.

Dirks, Nicholas. Castes of mind: colonialism and the making of modern India, Princeton: 2001. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Guha, Ramachandra. Writing environmental history in India. ‘Studies in History’ 9(1): January-June 1993.

Guha, Ranajit. An Indian historiography of India: a nineteenth century agenda and its implications. Calcutta: 1988. Also reprinted in Guha, Dominance without hegemony: history and power in colonial India. Cambridge, Mass: 1997.

Habib, Irfan. An examination of Wittfogel’s theory of ‘oriental despotism’. ‘Enquiry’ 6.

Habib, Irfan. Problems of marxist historiography. ‘Social Scientist’ 16(12): December 1988.

Hasan, Mushirul. The myth of unity: colonial and national narratives, in David Ludden (ed), Making India Hindu: religion, community, and the politics of democracy in India. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Press, 1996; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Kosambi, D.D. Marxism and ancient Indian culture. ‘Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’ 29: 1948. Reprinted in B.D. Chattopadhyaya (ed), Methodology in indology and other writings: D.D. Kosambi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kosambi, D.D. The basis of ancient Indian history, I & II. ‘Journal of American and Oriental Society’ 75: 1965. Reprinted in Chattopadhyaya (ed) D.D. Kosambi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kosambi, D.D. What constitutes Indian history. ‘Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’ 35: 1955. Reprinted in Chattopadhyaya (ed), D.D. Kosambi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kumar, Krishna. Prejudice and pride. New Delhi: Viking, 2001.

Ludden, David (ed). Reading subaltern studies. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Nandy, Ashis. History’s forgotten doubles, in history and theory, theme issue 34: World Historians and their Critiques, 1995.

O’Hanlon, Rosalind and David Washbrook. After orientalism: culture, criticism and the politics in the third world. ‘Comparatives Studies in Society and History’ 34(1): January 1992.

Panikkar, K.N. Historiographical and conceptual questions, in Panikkar, Culture, ideology and hegemony: intellectuals and social consciousness in colonial India. New Delhi: Tulika, 1995.

Philips, C.H. (ed). Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Prakash, Gyan. Can the ‘subaltern’ ride? a reply to O’Hanlon and Washbrook. ‘Comparative Studies in Society and History’ 34(1): January 1992.

Prakash, Gyan. Writing post-orientalist histories of the third world: perspectives from Indian historiography. ‘Comparative Studies in Society and History’ 32: 1990.

Rangarajan, Mahesh. Polity, ecology and landscape: new writings on South Asia’s past. ‘Studies in History’ (18)1: January-June 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. Beyond nationalist frames. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. Hindutva and history, in Sarkar, Beyond nationalist frames: relocating postmodernism, Hindutva and history. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. Postmodernism and the writing of history. ‘Studies in History’ 15(2), ns 1999. Reprinted in Sarkar, Beyond nationalist frames. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.

Sarkar, Sumit. The decline of the subaltern in subaltern studies, in Sarkar, Writing social history. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Sarkar, Sumit. Popular culture, community, power: three studies of modern Indian social history. ‘Studies in History’ 8(2): July-December 1992.

Sarkar, Sumit. Social history; predicaments and possibilities. Presidential address, proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 55 the session, Annamalai, 1985. Reprinted in ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: June 1995.

Sarkar, Tanika. Woman is a political animal: women’s histories, feminist writings. Indian History Congress: Delhi, 1999.

Sarkar, Tanika. Educating the children of Hindurashtra: a note on RSS schools, in P. Bidwai, H. Mukhia and A. Vanaik (eds), Religion, religiosity and communalism. Delhi: Manohar, 1996.

Sharma, R.S. Historiography of the ancient Indian social order, in Sharma, Perspectives in social and economic history of early India. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983.

Sharma, R.S. (ed) Survey of research in economic and society of India. Delhi: ICSSR, Ajanta Publishers, 1980.

Sharma, R.S. Indian feudalism retouched. ‘Indian Historical Review’ 2: 1974.

Stein, Burton. State formation and economy reconsidered. ‘Modern Asian Studies’ 19: 1985.

Stein, Burton. The segmentary state in South Indian history, in R.G. Fox (ed), Realm and region in traditional India. New Delhi: 1977.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay and Muzaffar Alam. The Mughal state, 1526-1750. Themes in Indian history series. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. The Mughal state: structure or process: reflections on recent western historiography. ‘The Indian Economic and Social History Review’ 29(3): 1992.

Thapar Romila. Early India: an overview, in Thapar, general president’s address – Indian history congress, Burdwan 1983. Published in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. Reprinted in Romila Thapar, Cultural pasts. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Thapar Romila. (ed). Recent perspectives of early Indian history. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1995.

Thapar Romila. Society and historical consciousness: the Itihasapurana tradition, in R. Thapar, Cultural pasts.

Thapar Romila. Ideology and interpretation of early Indian history. Lecture delivered at Cornell University, 1974. Reprinted in R. Thapar, Cultural pasts.

Thapar Romila. Theory of Aryan race in India: history and politics, in R. Thapar, Cultural pasts.

Washbrook, D.A. Progress and problems: South Asian economic and social history, 1720-1860. ‘Modern Asian Studies’ 22(1): 1988.

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