Benjamin Zachariah
Biographic Data
| ID | 302948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Zachariah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zachariah |
| SIGNATURE | ZACHARIAH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
History from Below
History from Below and the Populist Temptation
India, Empire, and First World War Culture
Reviewed by: India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs by Santanu Das Benjamin Zachariah Das, Santanu –India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 466. Accustomed as we are as historians, in the past three decades or so, to have literary critics write history for us, or indeed tell us what history is (and in this we are accompanied in our fat…
Marxism and the Production of History
In the 1984 introduction to his Theoryo fS ocial Systems,t he sociologist Niklas Luhmann painted an evocative picture of flying at ah ighl evel of abstraction over a "rather thick cloud cover" which offered occasional "glimpses of al and below",i ncluding "al argers tretch of landscape with the extinct volcanoes of Marxism".1It was, however,p rematuret od rawt he conclusion that the magma of these Marxist volcanoeshad petrified.Forsure there have…
After the Last Post
Identifying the Beast Within
Ali je jezik močnejši od tiskane besede? Razmišljanja o produkciji ustnih zgodovin in jezikih legitimitete
Članek prinaša nekaj razmislekov o uporabi ustne zgodovine v komunikaciji, v kateri je vloga spraševalca pogosto podcenjena, čeprav bi potreba po samorefleksiji terjala ravno nasprotno. Avtor navaja primere brez jasno opredeljenega spraševalca in intervjuvanca, kakor tudi brez zapisa dogajanja kot zgodbe. Posledično se sprašuje, kaj vse ustna zgodovina lahko sporoča, če si komunikacija, v kateri nastajajo ustni zgodovinski viri, prizadeva oživlja…
At the Fuzzy Edges of Fascism
The genealogies of völkisch ideas everywhere would suggest that they were relatively widespread in a world thinking about defining the nature of nationalism. The idea of the Volk has its origins, of course, in German romanticist imaginings of the German nation. The glorification of an ‘Aryan’ past in India, the identification of the ‘folk element’, or a connection with sacred soil and sacred space, shared the same building blocks of romantic nati…
Global Fascisms and the Volk
Meerut and a Hanging
The Meerut Conspiracy Case was directed largely at the emerging radical trade union and workers’ and peasants’ movements in India, while aiming its blow more specifically at an internationalist communism or socialism. The public impact of Meerut, however, was not unidirectional or confined to leftists, and it came to epitomize the arbitrariness of imperial authority. It was part of a larger process that created divisions and solidarities at the s…
A long, strange trip
This article sets out to map the travels of Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist, religious figure, with a focus on his years in Germany, Turkey and Switzerland during the First World War, where he was famously a key player in the ‘Indo-German conspiracy’ to subvert the British Empire. It concerns itself with tracing the trajectories, ideologies and contradictions of Har Dayal’s positions, including his attempted recantation of his revolutionary…
To Take Arms Across a Sea of Trouble
In the interwar period, a system for the movement of men, arms, and printed matter developed into a political network that in imperial sources came to be called the “lascar system.” Lascars were Indian seamen who worked for British and international merchant shipping companies and had contacts with trade unionists, communists, anarchists, and other politically active parties across the world—in particular in port towns such as Hamburg, Antwerp an…
Shabnum Tejani, Indian Secularism An Intellectual and Social History 1890–1950 (Ranikhet
Developing India
Historiography of India during 1930-50 period.
Rewriting imperial mythologies
British and Indian Ideas of ‘Development’
What was the ‘late colonial state’ in India? Purely chronologically, it might be taken to be a period from the 1920s or the 1930s onwards; but this is with the benefit of hindsight. Most writers are in agreement that, despite the political rhetoric of British imperialism in India, it was not until the Second World War that an actual withdrawal from India was seriously contemplated by Britain, with the definite reservation that matters of imperial…
A Great Destiny
The development of Professor Mahalanobis
Indian economic planning was conceptualized and administered by middle-class prefessional intellectuals who are now increasingly being cast as illegitimat appropriators of the right to speak for the nation. This is an attempt to view the social and intellectual trajectories of this appropriation, through the life of one such intellectual
At the Fuzzy Edges of Fascism
The genealogies of völkisch ideas everywhere would suggest that they were relatively widespread in a world thinking about defining the nature of nationalism. The idea of the Volk has its origins, of course, in German romanticist imaginings of the German nation. The glorification of an ‘Aryan’ past in India, the identification of the ‘folk element’, or a connection with sacred soil and sacred space, shared the same building blocks of romantic nati…
A long, strange trip
This article sets out to map the travels of Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist, religious figure, with a focus on his years in Germany, Turkey and Switzerland during the First World War, where he was famously a key player in the ‘Indo-German conspiracy’ to subvert the British Empire. It concerns itself with tracing the trajectories, ideologies and contradictions of Har Dayal’s positions, including his attempted recantation of his revolutionary…
The development of Professor Mahalanobis
Indian economic planning was conceptualized and administered by middle-class prefessional intellectuals who are now increasingly being cast as illegitimat appropriators of the right to speak for the nation. This is an attempt to view the social and intellectual trajectories of this appropriation, through the life of one such intellectual
British and Indian Ideas of ‘Development’
What was the ‘late colonial state’ in India? Purely chronologically, it might be taken to be a period from the 1920s or the 1930s onwards; but this is with the benefit of hindsight. Most writers are in agreement that, despite the political rhetoric of British imperialism in India, it was not until the Second World War that an actual withdrawal from India was seriously contemplated by Britain, with the definite reservation that matters of imperial…
A Great Destiny
Ali je jezik močnejši od tiskane besede? Razmišljanja o produkciji ustnih zgodovin in jezikih legitimitete
Članek prinaša nekaj razmislekov o uporabi ustne zgodovine v komunikaciji, v kateri je vloga spraševalca pogosto podcenjena, čeprav bi potreba po samorefleksiji terjala ravno nasprotno. Avtor navaja primere brez jasno opredeljenega spraševalca in intervjuvanca, kakor tudi brez zapisa dogajanja kot zgodbe. Posledično se sprašuje, kaj vse ustna zgodovina lahko sporoča, če si komunikacija, v kateri nastajajo ustni zgodovinski viri, prizadeva oživlja…
Meerut and a Hanging
The Meerut Conspiracy Case was directed largely at the emerging radical trade union and workers’ and peasants’ movements in India, while aiming its blow more specifically at an internationalist communism or socialism. The public impact of Meerut, however, was not unidirectional or confined to leftists, and it came to epitomize the arbitrariness of imperial authority. It was part of a larger process that created divisions and solidarities at the s…
To Take Arms Across a Sea of Trouble
In the interwar period, a system for the movement of men, arms, and printed matter developed into a political network that in imperial sources came to be called the “lascar system.” Lascars were Indian seamen who worked for British and international merchant shipping companies and had contacts with trade unionists, communists, anarchists, and other politically active parties across the world—in particular in port towns such as Hamburg, Antwerp an…
The development of Professor Mahalanobis
Indian economic planning was conceptualized and administered by middle-class prefessional intellectuals who are now increasingly being cast as illegitimat appropriators of the right to speak for the nation. This is an attempt to view the social and intellectual trajectories of this appropriation, through the life of one such intellectual
British and Indian Ideas of ‘Development’
What was the ‘late colonial state’ in India? Purely chronologically, it might be taken to be a period from the 1920s or the 1930s onwards; but this is with the benefit of hindsight. Most writers are in agreement that, despite the political rhetoric of British imperialism in India, it was not until the Second World War that an actual withdrawal from India was seriously contemplated by Britain, with the definite reservation that matters of imperial…
A Great Destiny
Rewriting imperial mythologies
Developing India
Historiography of India during 1930-50 period.
Shabnum Tejani, Indian Secularism An Intellectual and Social History 1890–1950 (Ranikhet
To Take Arms Across a Sea of Trouble
In the interwar period, a system for the movement of men, arms, and printed matter developed into a political network that in imperial sources came to be called the “lascar system.” Lascars were Indian seamen who worked for British and international merchant shipping companies and had contacts with trade unionists, communists, anarchists, and other politically active parties across the world—in particular in port towns such as Hamburg, Antwerp an…
Meerut and a Hanging
The Meerut Conspiracy Case was directed largely at the emerging radical trade union and workers’ and peasants’ movements in India, while aiming its blow more specifically at an internationalist communism or socialism. The public impact of Meerut, however, was not unidirectional or confined to leftists, and it came to epitomize the arbitrariness of imperial authority. It was part of a larger process that created divisions and solidarities at the s…
A long, strange trip
This article sets out to map the travels of Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist, religious figure, with a focus on his years in Germany, Turkey and Switzerland during the First World War, where he was famously a key player in the ‘Indo-German conspiracy’ to subvert the British Empire. It concerns itself with tracing the trajectories, ideologies and contradictions of Har Dayal’s positions, including his attempted recantation of his revolutionary…
At the Fuzzy Edges of Fascism
The genealogies of völkisch ideas everywhere would suggest that they were relatively widespread in a world thinking about defining the nature of nationalism. The idea of the Volk has its origins, of course, in German romanticist imaginings of the German nation. The glorification of an ‘Aryan’ past in India, the identification of the ‘folk element’, or a connection with sacred soil and sacred space, shared the same building blocks of romantic nati…
Global Fascisms and the Volk
After the Last Post
Identifying the Beast Within
Ali je jezik močnejši od tiskane besede? Razmišljanja o produkciji ustnih zgodovin in jezikih legitimitete
Članek prinaša nekaj razmislekov o uporabi ustne zgodovine v komunikaciji, v kateri je vloga spraševalca pogosto podcenjena, čeprav bi potreba po samorefleksiji terjala ravno nasprotno. Avtor navaja primere brez jasno opredeljenega spraševalca in intervjuvanca, kakor tudi brez zapisa dogajanja kot zgodbe. Posledično se sprašuje, kaj vse ustna zgodovina lahko sporoča, če si komunikacija, v kateri nastajajo ustni zgodovinski viri, prizadeva oživlja…
Marxism and the Production of History
In the 1984 introduction to his Theoryo fS ocial Systems,t he sociologist Niklas Luhmann painted an evocative picture of flying at ah ighl evel of abstraction over a "rather thick cloud cover" which offered occasional "glimpses of al and below",i ncluding "al argers tretch of landscape with the extinct volcanoes of Marxism".1It was, however,p rematuret od rawt he conclusion that the magma of these Marxist volcanoeshad petrified.Forsure there have…
India, Empire, and First World War Culture
Reviewed by: India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs by Santanu Das Benjamin Zachariah Das, Santanu –India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 466. Accustomed as we are as historians, in the past three decades or so, to have literary critics write history for us, or indeed tell us what history is (and in this we are accompanied in our fat…
History from Below
History from Below and the Populist Temptation
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