Education
He studied at Presidency College, Calcutta and at the University of Calcutta.
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Writing Social History by Sumit Sarkar (1999-05-01)
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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History by Sarkar, Sumit (2002) Hardcover
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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908
(From the moment of its first printing about thirty-five y...)
From the moment of its first printing about thirty-five years ago, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal has always held a special place in the historiography of modern India. Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument ... Sarkar s research improved on existing historiography in a major way by bringing out many unknown or hitherto neglected aspects of the history of the Swadeshi movement: the complex divisions that marked its different trends, the labour movement and mass mobilization of the period that few knew about in our time, Swadeshi anticipation of many of the Gandhian techniques of protest ... this book, which should have enjoyed a steady and buoyant market over the years, has strangely remained out of print for about fifteen successive years. Its republication by Permanent Black is truly a cause for celebration. Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago Sumit Sarkar s story of Swadeshi brings out in fascinating detail, with a wealth of sources, all that he sees as heroic and tragic, sublime and quixotic, in those dramatic and eventful years in Bengal. We have here no simple story of success or failure, no celebratory account of great deeds and noble figures, no linear unfolding of events that lead step by step to a final climax. What we have instead is a picture painted in shades of grey in which black and white merge and separate in that in-between zone where the blackness of black comes under question as much as the whiteness of white. Neeladri Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Modern India, 1885-1947
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A brand new book of tales starring the endearing jeremy james the little boy who never stops questioning the world - and seeing it from humorous angles in this book jeremy james learns to swim, holds a car boot sale, foils some tricycle thieves, saves an old lady, causes mayhem at a wedding and cuts his own hair among other things. There s something here for every reader
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The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908 by Sumit Sarkar(May 9, 2011) Paperback
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Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History
( The political context in which historians of India find...)
The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian’s intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India’s foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore’s fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography―anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies―will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.
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Modern India 1885-1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series)
('...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It sp...)
'...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low
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Modern India 1885-1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series) by Sumit Sarkar (1989-01-24)
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The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908
(This classic work of scholarship, first published in 1973...)
This classic work of scholarship, first published in 1973, has long been out of print. It is reprinted now with a new preface by the author and critical essays by Neeladri Bhattacharya and Dipesh Chakrabarty.
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Sumit Sarkar
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He is the author of Swadeshi Movement. He taught for many years as a lecturer at the University of Calcutta, and later as a reader at the University of Burdwan. He was Professor of History at the University of Delhi.
In his view this error was traceable to a basic confusion in the early project that posed an absolute separation between the elite and subaltern domains.
He was born into a family of illustrious historians. His mother was the cousin of legendary statistician P C Mahalanobis.
He contributed a volume to the Towards Freedom project of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), publication of which was blocked in 2000 by the ICHR under the influence of then Indian government dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The publication of the volume was eventually allowed by the Government of India once the Congress party came to power after the general election of 2004.
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Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History
( The political context in which historians of India find...)
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Modern India, 1885-1947
(A brand new book of tales starring the endearing jeremy j...)
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Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908
(From the moment of its first printing about thirty-five y...)
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The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908
(This classic work of scholarship, first published in 1973...)
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Writing Social History by Sumit Sarkar (1999-05-01)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History by Sarkar, Sumit (2002) Hardcover
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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Modern India 1885-1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series)
('...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It sp...)
- Modern India, 1885-1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth)
- The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908 by Sumit Sarkar(May 9, 2011) Paperback
- Modern India 1885-1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series) by Sumit Sarkar (1989-01-24)
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Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History
Membership
He was one of the founding members of the Subaltern Studies Collective, but later distanced himself from the project
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Bharatiya Janata Party