After the Last Post The Lives of Indian Historiography

by Zachariah, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780192867865
• ISBN10: 0192867865
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-06-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Benjamin Zachariah, Senior Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media/Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig, Germany

Benjamin Zachariah read history at Presidency College, Calcutta, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His published work includes a biography of Nehru (2004), 'Developing India' (2005/2012), 'Nation Games' (2011/2016/2020), and the co-edited volumes 'The Internationalist Moment' (2015) and 'What's Left of Marxism' (2020/2022). He was Reader at the University of Sheffield before moving to Germany where, among other posts, he was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Trier. His research interests centre on historiography and historical thinking in public forums, intellectual histories of the twentieth century, international revolutionary networks, and global fascism.

Table of Contents

Preface to the South Asia EditionPreface: Reflections on ReflexivityAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Instrumentalization of Historiography and the Production of VictimhoodPART I: MARKING THE POSTS1. Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History2. Manifesto on Indirections: Histories, Collective Victimhood, and PostcolonialismPART II: INSTRUMENTALIZATIONS3. The Revolt of Memory: 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination4. Histories of Empire, Imperial Legitimation, and the Wartime Career of Penderel Moon5. History, Cinema, and the Politics of Cultural Sensitivity in Interwar IndiaPART III: POSTDISCURSIVE POSSIBILITIES6. Moving Ideas and How to Catch Them7. Travellers in Archives, or the Possibilities of a Post-PostArchival HistoriographyAfterword: Is There a Discipline to This?