Neeladri Bhattacharya
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neeladri Bhattacharya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neeladri |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhattacharya |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTACHARYA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Claiming the People's Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century
This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the past. Twelve case studies focus on uses of history and memory by populist movements across the globe – ranging from Brazil to Bangladesh, from Poland to Tanzania. Five thematic chapters zoom in on key features of populism: its relation to time, national…
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World
Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya
Talking History records a series of conversations that centre on the writing of history, and especially early Indian history, as evident in the works of Romila Thapar. She has focused on the study of early India but is also interested in the link between the past and the present. Whereas she recognizes the importance of analysing texts of ancient India for information on early history, which she does in her various studies of the past, she is als…
Lineage and Kingship
In speaking about her initial work on the Mauryan king Ashoka, Romila Thapar discusses the juxtaposition between the ethical and the political in Indian history. In exploring the meaning of Buddhism for those times she argues for a notion of dissent being implicit in such philosophies that later came to be grouped together as the Shramana dharma in opposition to the Brahmana dharma . The aim of renouncers was to propagate and adopt an alternate k…
The Historian and the Epic
The discussion in this section focuses on how a historian, who is a rationalist and follows a chronological sequence of events in history, analyses the assumptions of epic literature where historicity is of little consequence. Thapar explains that it is not necessary to prove that the events described in the epics are historically accurate, but clarifies that the historian can derive an understanding of the kind of societies represented in the ep…
Lineages of Capital
Banaji’s essays offer a powerful plea for a renewal of Marxism, a passionate argument to emancipate Marxism from the dead weight of vulgar traditions – with their simplifications, forced abstractions, mechanical reductions, generalised a-historical theorising, and familiar teleologies. To reinvigorate Marxism, argues Banaji, it is essential to use theory creatively, and recognise the need for complexity in thinking about categories. We cannot gen…
Some Reflections on 'Life after Thirty
More than thirty years have passed since the History Workshop (HW) was established in South Africa in 1977. Much has changed in these years. The 1970s was a conjuncture of struggle. In the universities a tradition of radical history had begun to take shape, and outside, workers and students movements were sweeping through the cities. Coming into being at a time of tumult, the identity of the HW became intimately connected to the battle against th…
Predicaments of Secular Histories
Research Article| January 01 2008 Predicaments of Secular Histories Neeladri Bhattacharya Neeladri Bhattacharya Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 57–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Neeladri Bhattacharya; Predicaments of Secular Histories. Public Culture 1 January 2008; 20 (1): 57–73…
The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute
Lenders and Debtors: Punjab Countryside, 1880-1940
The logic of tenancy cultivation: Central and south-east Punjab, 1870-1935
Predicaments of Secular Histories
Research Article| January 01 2008 Predicaments of Secular Histories Neeladri Bhattacharya Neeladri Bhattacharya Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 57–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Neeladri Bhattacharya; Predicaments of Secular Histories. Public Culture 1 January 2008; 20 (1): 57–73…
The logic of tenancy cultivation: Central and south-east Punjab, 1870-1935
Lenders and Debtors: Punjab Countryside, 1880-1940
The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute
Lineages of Capital
Banaji’s essays offer a powerful plea for a renewal of Marxism, a passionate argument to emancipate Marxism from the dead weight of vulgar traditions – with their simplifications, forced abstractions, mechanical reductions, generalised a-historical theorising, and familiar teleologies. To reinvigorate Marxism, argues Banaji, it is essential to use theory creatively, and recognise the need for complexity in thinking about categories. We cannot gen…
The logic of tenancy cultivation: Central and south-east Punjab, 1870-1935
Lenders and Debtors: Punjab Countryside, 1880-1940
The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute
Predicaments of Secular Histories
Research Article| January 01 2008 Predicaments of Secular Histories Neeladri Bhattacharya Neeladri Bhattacharya Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 57–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Neeladri Bhattacharya; Predicaments of Secular Histories. Public Culture 1 January 2008; 20 (1): 57–73…
Some Reflections on 'Life after Thirty
More than thirty years have passed since the History Workshop (HW) was established in South Africa in 1977. Much has changed in these years. The 1970s was a conjuncture of struggle. In the universities a tradition of radical history had begun to take shape, and outside, workers and students movements were sweeping through the cities. Coming into being at a time of tumult, the identity of the HW became intimately connected to the battle against th…
Lineages of Capital
Banaji’s essays offer a powerful plea for a renewal of Marxism, a passionate argument to emancipate Marxism from the dead weight of vulgar traditions – with their simplifications, forced abstractions, mechanical reductions, generalised a-historical theorising, and familiar teleologies. To reinvigorate Marxism, argues Banaji, it is essential to use theory creatively, and recognise the need for complexity in thinking about categories. We cannot gen…
Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya
Talking History records a series of conversations that centre on the writing of history, and especially early Indian history, as evident in the works of Romila Thapar. She has focused on the study of early India but is also interested in the link between the past and the present. Whereas she recognizes the importance of analysing texts of ancient India for information on early history, which she does in her various studies of the past, she is als…
Lineage and Kingship
In speaking about her initial work on the Mauryan king Ashoka, Romila Thapar discusses the juxtaposition between the ethical and the political in Indian history. In exploring the meaning of Buddhism for those times she argues for a notion of dissent being implicit in such philosophies that later came to be grouped together as the Shramana dharma in opposition to the Brahmana dharma . The aim of renouncers was to propagate and adopt an alternate k…
The Historian and the Epic
The discussion in this section focuses on how a historian, who is a rationalist and follows a chronological sequence of events in history, analyses the assumptions of epic literature where historicity is of little consequence. Thapar explains that it is not necessary to prove that the events described in the epics are historically accurate, but clarifies that the historian can derive an understanding of the kind of societies represented in the ep…
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World
Claiming the People's Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century
This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the past. Twelve case studies focus on uses of history and memory by populist movements across the globe – ranging from Brazil to Bangladesh, from Poland to Tanzania. Five thematic chapters zoom in on key features of populism: its relation to time, national…
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