Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India: 1700-1960
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1st ed.
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9788178242071
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xii+308p.
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The 'Maratha Period' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in Indian history. Prachi Deshpande examines the invocation of this period in various political projects, including anticolonial Hindu nationalism and the Non-Brahman Movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries over the meanings of traditions, culture, colonialism and ...
