Table of Contents

Preface: Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India Part 1: Re-thinking Indian Histories 1. Historiography and Narrative 2. The Historical Sense 3. Hindutva and Writing Postcolonial India 4. B.R. Ambedkar and the Hindu Past Part 2: Re-imagining Indian Pasts 5. V.S. Naipaul’s India: History and the Myth of Antiquity 6. Salman Rushdie and the Agon of the Past. Conclusion

About the Author

Naheem Jabbar is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. His current research interest explores the vital 'pre-political' role religious consciousness plays as a mode of resistance for subordinated groups.