Vernacularizing pasts: Odisha: Mahabharata to `modernity

Book Details

• Publisher: ADITYA PRAKASHAN Indological Publishers & Booksellers

• Language: English

• Edition: Delhi

• Year: 2022

• ISBN-13: 9789355725554

• ISBN-10: 9355725558

• Subject(s): History

About the Book
This scholarly work examines vernacularity, marginality, and alternative histories, with a particular focus on Odisha. It critically engages with the broader frameworks of history, time-space, and modernity, and the discourses that shape them. The book interrogates the dominance of analytic history (History 1), whose rigid and often Eurocentric disciplinary practices restrict the understanding of Indian historical processes.

By exploring alternative historiographies and voices from the margins, the book challenges established paradigms of historicism and opens the path for new perspectives in historical analysis. It provides a critical framework for understanding Odisha’s past, while also contributing to the larger debate on how histories are written, interpreted, and contested in South Asia.

Essential for historians, cultural scholars, and students of Indian modernity, this book redefines the idea of history itself, foregrounding plural approaches over rigid linearity.

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Published by ADITYA PRAKASHAN (2022), this book explores Odisha’s history through themes of vernacularity, marginality, and modernity, while interrogating rigid analytic historiography. ISBN 9789355725554.