The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth - Softcover

Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226100456 ISBN 13: 9780226100456

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2015

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"This is a wonderful book: at once a deep study of what modernity meant to some complex and fascinating Indian intellectuals, a rich analysis of a major scholar's assumptions and practices, and a compelling read. Meeting Sarkar will be an unforgettable experience for anyone who shares his, and Chakrabarty's, interest in historical research and writing."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

A brilliant and fascinating study. What is particularly impressive is the humanity of Chakrabarty s approach to Sarkar, who fell rapidly out of public favor after his death and was virtually ignored or even disliked by several generations of younger, more nationalistic historians thereafter. Elegant, accessible, and nuanced, "The Calling of History" will stand as the key text for the understanding of Indian historical writing between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. --C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London"

This is a wonderful book: at once a deep study of what modernity meant to some complex and fascinating Indian intellectuals, a rich analysis of a major scholar s assumptions and practices, and a compelling read. Meeting Sarkar will be an unforgettable experience for anyone who shares his, and Chakrabarty s, interest in historical research and writing. --Anthony Grafton, Princeton University"

Chakrabarty s writings are always a delight, wide-ranging and unfailingly original. Here, with a focus on Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his interlocutor, G. S. Sardesai, Chakrabarty brilliantly probes the creation of academic history as a discipline and its dialectic with popular conceptions of the past. This is a book that invites specialist and nonspecialist alike to fresh ways of understanding the discipline of history, not only in India but everywhere. --Barbara D. Metcalf, University of California, Davis"

"A brilliant and fascinating study. What is particularly impressive is the humanity of Chakrabarty's approach to Sarkar, who fell rapidly out of public favor after his death and was virtually ignored or even disliked by several generations of younger, more nationalistic historians thereafter. Elegant, accessible, and nuanced, The Calling of History will stand as the key text for the understanding of Indian historical writing between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries."--C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London

"Chakrabarty's writings are always a delight, wide-ranging and unfailingly original. Here, with a focus on Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his interlocutor, G. S. Sardesai, Chakrabarty brilliantly probes the creation of academic history as a discipline and its dialectic with popular conceptions of the past. This is a book that invites specialist and nonspecialist alike to fresh ways of understanding the discipline of history, not only in India but everywhere."--Barbara D. Metcalf, University of California, Davis

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0226100456
• ISBN 13: 9780226100456
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314