History and the present 
edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh 
 - New Delhi  Permanent Black  2002 
 - ix, 273p. :   plates;  21.5 cm. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: history and the present /   On retelling the Muslim conquest of North India /   Mythicising the white man: colonialism and fantasy in a folk tradition /   The endangered Yakshi: Careers of an ancient art object in modern India /   Genealogy, history and the law: the case of the Rajamala /   Village histories: coalescing the past and present /   The two pasts of Nasser's peasants: political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village /   Writing the riot: between the historiography and ethnography of communal violence in India /   Re-presenting pasts: Santals in nineteenth century Bengal /   Partha Chatterjee --   Sahid Amin --   Sundar Kaali --   Tapati Guha Thakurata --   Indrani Chatterjee --   Nandini Sundar --   Reem Saad --   Deepak Mehta --   Prathama Banerjee 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>8178240947  Rs.295.00 9788178240947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--India<br/>History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954  / CHH