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olar in early-twentieth-century india, sir jadunath sarkar (18701958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first indian historian to gain honorary membership in the american historical association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalised by the indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and anti-colonialism. The calling of history examines sarkar careerand poignant obsolescenceas a way into larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life.Through close readings of more than twelve hundred letters to and from sarkar, along with other archival documents, chakrabarty demonstrates that historians in colonial india formulated the basic concepts and practices of the field via vigorousand at times bitter and hurtfuldebates in the public sphere. He shows that because of its non-technical nature the discipline as a whole remains susceptible to pressure from both the public and the academy even today. Methodological debates and the changing reputations of scholars like sarkar, he argues, must therefore be understood within the specific contexts in which particular histories are written..

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Society & Culture

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Paperback

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English

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