Citizen historian explorations in historiography
by S. N. Mukherjee
- New Delhi Manohar Publishers and Distributors 1996
- xiv, 148p. ; 22.5 cm.
Introduction -- The citizen historian -- The social implications of the political thought of Raja Rammohun Roy -- Raja Rammohun Roy and status of women in Bengal in the nineteenth century -- The idea of the village community and the British administrators -- Politics and poetics : Sir William Jones and the debate on Aesthetics in the Eighteenth century -- Satinath Bhaduri's 'The Vigil' : an essay on the novel and history -- Origins of Indian nationalism : some questions on the historiography of modern India -- The tradition of Rama Gupta and Indian nationalist historian -- Polygamy and genealogy in the Gupta age : a note on feudalism from above in ancient India -- My discovery of Nehru : autobiography as history