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A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and anti-colonialism. The Calling of History examines Sarkar’s career—and poignant obsolescence—as a way into larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life. Through close readings of more than twelve hundred letters to and from Sarkar along with other archival documents, Dipesh Chakrabarty demonstrates that historians in colonial India formulated the basic concepts and practices of the field via vigorous—and at times bitter and hurtful—debates in the public sphere. He furthermore shows that because of its non-technical nature, the discipline as a whole remains susceptible to pressure from both the public and the academy even today. Methodological debates and the changing reputations of scholars like Sarkar, he argues, must therefore be understood within the specific contexts in which particular histories are written. Insightful and with far-reaching implications for all historians, The Calling of History offers a valuable look at the double life of history and how tensions between its public and private sides played out in a major scholar’s career.
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9780226100449 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 2015, cover price $90.00
9780387558660, titled "Elektrotechnik Band 2: Netzwerke" | Springer Verlag, September 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | also contains Elektrotechnik Band 2: Netzwerke
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9780226100456 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 2015, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association.
9780387558011, titled "Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation: First Siglex Workshop Berkeley, Ca, Usa, June 17, 1991 Proceedings" | Springer Verlag, October 1, 1992, cover price $76.95 | also contains Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation: First Siglex Workshop Berkeley, Ca, Usa, June 17, 1991 Proceedings
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9780198082187 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 2013, cover price $185.00
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9780877276074 | Cornell Univ Southeast Asia, June 30, 2010, cover price $46.95
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9780877276081 | Cornell Univ Southeast Asia, January 1, 2010, cover price $23.95
Product Description: This special issue of Public Culture explores the tension and the challenges raised by the interaction of history with the domains of public life, including politics, the law, and the media. It focuses specifically on situations where a social compact has been reshaped based on the revaluation of historical wounds such as those inflicted in South African apartheid and in the Holocaust...read more
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9780822366874, titled "The Public Life of History" | Duke Univ Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This special issue of Public Culture explores the tension and the challenges raised by the interaction of history with the domains of public life, including politics, the law, and the media.
Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? Provincializing Europe is one of the first book-length treatments on how postcolonial thinking impacts on the social sciences. This book explores, through a series of linked essays, the problems of thought that present themselves when we think of a place such as India through the categories of modern, European social science and, in particular, history. Provincializing Europe is a sustained conversation between historical thinking and postcolonial perspectives. It addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of the modern in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Chakrabarty argues, is built right into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and human sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Chakrabarty finds that "Nativism," however, is no answer to Eurocentrism, because the universals propounded by European Enlightenment remain indispensable to any social critique that seeks to address issues of social justice and equity. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought-categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Chakrabarty demonstrates, both theoretically and with examples from colonial and contemporary India, how such translational histories may be thought and written. Provincializing Europe is not a project of shunning European thought. It is a project of globalizing such thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.
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9780691049083 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place?
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9780691130019 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 29, 2007, cover price $31.95
9780691049090 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $26.95
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9780195679564 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 19, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Contributed articles presented in a conference organized at the University of Chicago in April 2005.
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9780195668711 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 6, 2006, cover price $35.00
Product Description: In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. The questions that motivate Chakrabarty are shared by all postcolonial historians and anthropologists: How do we think about the legacy of the European Enlightenment in lands far from Europe in geography or history? How can we envision ways of being modern that speak to what is shared around the world, as well as to cultural diversity? How do we resist the tendency to justify the violence accompanying triumphalist moments of modernity?Chakrabarty pursues these issues in a series of closely linked essays, ranging from a history of the influential Indian series Subaltern Studies to examinations of specific cultural practices in modern India, such as the use of khadiâGandhian style of dressâby male politicians and the politics of civic consciousness in public spaces...read more
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9780226100388 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 2002, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories.
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9780226100395 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories.
Product Description: As the final installment of Public Cultureâs Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanismâor ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond oneâs particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the usual Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780822328841 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: As the final installment of Public Cultureâs Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanismâor ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond oneâs particular society.
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9780822328995 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: As the final installment of Public Cultureâs Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanismâor ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond oneâs particular society.
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9780822364818 | Duke Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.00
Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" action from 1890 to 1940. Around and within this empirical core is built his critique of emancipatory narratives and their relationship to such Marxian categories as "capital," "proletariat," or "class consciousness." The book contributes to currently developing theories that connect Marxist historiography, post-structuralist thinking, and the traditions of hermeneutic analysis. Although Chakrabarty deploys Marxian arguments to explain the political practices of the workers he describes, he replaces universalizing Marxist explanations with a sensitive documentary method that stays close to the experience of workers and their European bosses. He finds in their relationship many elements of the landlord/tenant relationship from the rural past: the jute-mill workers of the period were preindividualist in consciousness and thus incapable of participating consistently in modern forms of politics and political organization. (view table of contents)
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9780691055480 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship.
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9780691070308, titled "Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940" | Princeton Univ Pr, August 7, 2000, cover price $46.00
Product Description: Subaltern Studies IX carries forward the Subaltern agenda of searching for the voices and agency of the subaltern, enlarging the focus to include contemporary issues of gender, oppression, and lumpenization in metropolitan modern India. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195638653 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 16, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Subaltern Studies IX carries forward the Subaltern agenda of searching for the voices and agency of the subaltern, enlarging the focus to include contemporary issues of gender, oppression, and lumpenization in metropolitan modern India.
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