This text looks at stories and storytelling, listening and retelling, and the complex ways in which this results in the creation of historical narratives in post-colonial India. The author provides a critique of several schools of history-writing, specially within the Indian context, and argues that there are as many historical pasts as there are stories of it.
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This text looks at stories and storytelling, listening and retelling, and the complex ways in which this results in the creation of historical narratives in post-colonial India. The author provides a critique of several schools of history-writing, specially within the Indian context, and argues that there are as many historical pasts as there are stories of it.
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