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Soft cover. Condizione: New. Contents Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Bakhar historiography. 2. Representing Maratha Power. 3. History print and education. 4. Historiography and nationalism. 5. Region nation and Maratha history. 6. Maratha history and historical fiction. 7. Caste identity and difference. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The Maratha Period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals is a defining era in Indian history. Prachi Deshpande examines the invocation of this period in various political projects including anticolonial Hindu nationalism and the Non Brahman Movement as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries over the meanings of traditions culture colonialism and modernity. Deploying a rich body of literary and cultural sources Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern Western India as well as the deep connections between historical and literary narratives. She also shows how historical memory provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their natural religious and regional identities pointing out history's pervasive potential for shaping politics within thoroughly diverse societies. A study of quite extraordinary penetration and breadth Creative Pasts mines Maratha history and Marathi sources as never before to analyse historiography popular memory and the socio literary impact of colonialism on regional societies and cultures. Expanding from this base the book succeeds also in showing how many significant patterns of modernity in India are produced by the interplay of cultural activities power structures and political rhetoric. 308 pp.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. Contents: Preface and acknowledgements. Introduction. I. The Sanskrit cosmopolis: 1. The language of the Gods enters the world. 2. Literature and the cosmopolitan language of literature. 3. The world conquest and regime of the cosmopolitan style. 4. Sanskrit culture as courtly practice. 5. The map of Sanskrit knowledge and the discourse on the ways of literature. 6. Political formations and cultural ethos. 7. A European countercosmopolis. II. The Vernacular millennium: 8. Beginnings, textualization, superposition. 9. Creating a regional world: the case of Kannada. 10. Vernacular poetries and polities in Southern Asia. 11. Europe vernacularized. 12. Comparative and connective vernacularization. III. Theory and practice of culture and power: 13. Actually existing theory and its discontents. 14. Indigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity. Epilogue: from cosmopolitan-or-vernacular to cosmopolitan-and-vernacular. Appendixes. Publication history. Bibliography. Index. "In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle for poetry and polity by tracing the two great moments of this transformation. He asks whether the very different histories of these two moments challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice.".