WRITING SOCIAL HISTORY (OIP)

This volume combines empirical study of specific themes pertaining to late-colonial Indian history with interventions in current debates on the extent and nature of Western cultural domination. It studies a range of subjects from liberal British attitudes to Vidyasagar and Ramakrishna; from the relevance of E.P. Thompson to the decline of the subaltern in Subaltern Studies; from a village scandal in Bengal to the evolving urban landscape of its capital, Calcutta.