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_c(hbk)
082 _a361.10954
_bSAR
100 _aSarkar, Sumit
245 _aEssays of a lifetime : reformers, nationalists, subalterns
260 _aRanikhet :
_bPermanent Black,
_c2018
300 _axiv, 630 p. ;
_c22.3 cm.
365 _aINR
_b1495
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _aFor the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As one eminent historian put it when the work was republished in 2010: “Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterised this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument.
650 _aNationalism
650 _aSocial movements
650 _aSocial problems
650 _aBritish Occupation of India
942 _2ddc
_cBK