Cultural Histories of India

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List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Investigating cultural practices, fashioning identities, and travel literature
	1 John Locke’s India: religion, revelation, and enthusiasm
	2 Encountering the “sati”: early modern English travel narratives and the politics of exoticization
	3 Indian travel writing in the age of empire: mobility and cosmopolitan nationalism
Part 2 Alternate histories, divergent concepts, and subaltern spaces of resistance
	4 Patriots in Kala Pani? Writing subaltern resistance into the nationalist memory
	5 Reading Bhikshu Bodhanand’s Mool Bharatvasi Aur Arya: reflections on an alternative history of the “beginnings” of “Indian civilization”
	6 Enacting resistance in history and fiction: counter-narratives of tribal historiography in Mahasweta Devi’s writings
	7 “We must create a history of India in living terms”: Patrick Geddes and aspects of Sister Nivedita’s writings on Indian history
Part 3 Writing history and engaging with peripheral genres
	8 Cassetted emotions: intimate songs and marital conflicts in the age of pravasi (1970–1990)
	9 Framing history, precarity, and trauma: a study of Nandita Das’s Firaaq
Index