1. Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. The Politics of Historical Thinking VII
3. Contents IX
4. Preface: Reflections on Reflexivity XIII
5. Introduction: The Instrumentalisation of Historiography and the Production of Victimhood 1
6. Part One. Marking the Posts
7. 1. Identifying the Beast Within: Postcolonial Theory and History 21
8. 2. Manifesto on Indirections: Histories, Collective Victimhood and Postcolonialism 48
9. Part Two. Instrumentalisations
10. 3. The Revolt of Memory: 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination 59
11. 4. Histories of Empire, Imperial Legitimation and the Wartime Career of Penderel Moon 91
12. 5. History, Cinema and the Politics of Cultural Sensitivity in Interwar India 110
13. Part Three. Postdiscursive Possibilities
14. 6. Moving Ideas and How to Catch Them 129
15. 7. Travellers in Archives, or the Possibilities of a Post-Post-Archival Historiography 149
16. 8. Afterword: Is There a Discipline to This? 163
17. Acknowledgements 167
18. Index 168