Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
Language: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2004
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x, 323 pages : 2 illustrations ; 21 cm. Contents: Introduction: life histories in India / David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn The self and the cell : Indian prison narratives as life histories / David Arnold The reticent autobiographer: Mahadevi Varma's writings / Francesca Orsini The invention of private life: a reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography / Sudipta Kaviraj The past in the present: instruction, pleasure, and blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap biitii / Barbara D. Metcalf Hamara daur-i hayat : an Indian Muslim woman writes her life / Sylvia Vatuk Cowherd or king? the Sanskrit biography of Ananda Ranga Pillai / David Shulman Life histories as narrative strategy : prophecy, song, and truth-telling in Tamil tales and legends / Stuart Blackburn Honor is honor, after all: silence and speech in the life stories of women in Kangra, North-West India / Kirin Narayan Beyond silence : a Dalit life history in South India / Josiane Racine, Jean-Luc Racine The marital history of a thumb-impression man / Jonathan P. Parry.…
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- Title
- Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
- Author
- David Arnold, Stuart H. Blackburn (eds.)
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 025321727X
- ISBN 13
- 9780253217271
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- Anthropology, India
"This book serves as a window into the rich and revealing lives and self-representations of the particular individuals who have produced the life histories. In so doing, it makes very important broader points about the use of life histories in social science research in general and in the study of South Asian social-cultural life in particular." ―Sarah Lamb
Life histories have a wide, if not universal, appeal. But what does it mean to narrate the story of a life, whether one’s own or someone else’s, orally or in writing? Which lives are worth telling, and who is authorized to tell them? The essays in this volume consider these questions through close examination of a wide range of biographies, autobiographies, diaries, and oral stories from India. Their subjects range from literary authors to housewives, politicians to folk heroes, and include young and old, women and men, the illiterate and the learned.
Contributors are David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn, Sudipta Kaviraj, Barbara D. Metcalf, Kirin Narayan, Francesca Orsini, Jonathan P. Parry, Jean-Luc Racine, Josiane Racine, David Shulman, and Sylvia Vatuk.
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About the Author
David Arnold is Professor of South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
Stuart Blackburn is Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
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