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The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth 9780226240244
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The Calling of History
The Calling of History Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth D i p e s h C h a k r a ba rt y
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, also published by the University of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2015 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2015. Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15
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isbn-13: 978-0-226-10044-9 (cloth) isbn-13: 978-0-226-10045-6 (paper) isbn-13: 978-0-226-24024-4 (e-book) doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226240244.001.0001 Illustration on page ii: Jadunath Sarkar (ca. 1926). Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Archives, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Used with permission. Chakrabarty, Dipesh, author. The calling of history : Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his empire of truth / Dipesh Chakrab
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Why was this noted historian doped so disdainfully? T.C.A. Raghavan, in History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G.S. Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh favour T • Has the political and geopolitical churn of the past decade made us more sensitive to history? That we have witnessed a decade of churn is evident from both external and domestic markers. The rise of a great power in immediate proximity to us, the oscillation of the United States from a Black president to one who has in his support White supremacists of different hues, and the drama of the departure of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union are only three of many other markers, although these three would cover a large part of our intellectual frames of reference. Domestic political change, too, has been fundamental and its deep structural roots are suggested by wider debates about the past as also looking at well-established events from new and different perspectives. The controversy about the film Padmaavat , the renaming of Aurangzeb Road as APJ Abdul Kalam Road, the debate on the Battle of Bhima Koregaon commemoration, and the less controversial but equally significant commemorations of the role of Indian soldiers in World War I, or of the 50th anniversary of the 1965 war with Pakistan, provide a snapshot of recent contestations and conversations about our medieval and modern history. The deb Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh: Three Lives in History