The Making of History

by Panikkar, K. N.; Byres, Terence J.; Patnaik, Utsa

• ISBN13: 9781843310389
• ISBN10: 1843310384
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Anthem Pr

Summary

Featuring highly original and bold analyses of Marxist historiography and theories of socialist construction.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Irfan Habib	p. 1
The Rgveda: Encapsulating Social Change	p. 11
Aryanization of the Indus Civilization	p. 41
Feudal Social Formation in Indian History	p. 56
Muskets in the Mawas: Instruments of Peasant Resistance	p. 81
Witnessing Transition: Views on the End of the Akbari Dispensation	p. 104
Levelling or Differentiation? Production and Appropriation Relations in Mughal India	p. 141
Rural and Urban Caste Structure in Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century India: The Deccan and Gujarat	p. 179
Palashi: The Inside Story of a Betrayal	p. 202
Pre-capitalist Economic Formations and Differential Agricultural Productivity: A Tentative Hypothesis	p. 239
Workers and the Historians' Burden	p. 276
The Indian Economic Experience 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study	p. 328
New Estimates of Eighteenth-Century British Trade and Their Relation to Transfers from Tropical Colonies	p. 359
Modernity and Its Philosophic Visions	p. 405
Postmodernism in History	p. 440
Realism and the Syntax of Difference: Narratives of the Bengal Famine	p. 478
Archaeology and Nationalism: The Case of Medieval Gaur	p. 500
The Rural Artist and Secular Culture in the Era of Globalization	p. 515
Culture, Nationalism and Communal Politics	p. 533
India's Partition Revisited	p. 550
Class, Clientelism and Communal Politics in Contemporary Bangladesh	p. 572
Ayodhya: A Review of the Archaeological Evidence	p. 607
State Enterprise Reform and the Political Economy of 'Transition'	p. 625
A Simple Model of an Imaginary Socialist Economy	p. 640
Contributors	p. 658
Irfan Habib: A List of Publications	p. 660
Index	p. 669
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