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Random Walk Through Historiography South India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thiruvanathapuram Kerala Council for Historical Research 2016Description: 199pISBN:
  • 8185499578
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.8 RAJ/R
Summary: Random Walk Through Historiography: South India presents a selective re-reading of existing texts on history, analysing historiography in the context of South India. The five essays included here investigate the role of language, systems of signs and textual strategies in the formation of identities and categories in objective historiography. Concepts such as ‘category displacement’, ‘conceptual slippage’ and ‘archaivalisation’ are introduced and discussed here.
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Book Book Study Centre Pandalam ,University of Kerala Processing Center Study Centre Pandalam ,University of Kerala 954.8 RAJ/R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available USCP1703

Includes bibliographical references and index

Random Walk Through Historiography: South India presents a selective re-reading of existing texts on history, analysing historiography in the context of South India. The five essays included here investigate the role of language, systems of signs and textual strategies in the formation of identities and categories in objective historiography. Concepts such as ‘category displacement’, ‘conceptual slippage’ and ‘archaivalisation’ are introduced and discussed here.

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