Memoirs as History
Edited by Aparajita Dhar, Binata Sarkar, Pradip Chattopadhyay
Product Overview
History is not about emperors, their victories and defeats. History is about subjects, who are ruled and remain a part and parcel of a society. Autobiographies, personal memoirs throw light on the authors' contemporary times as well as reflect their mental pre occupation towards the society. Personal interpretation of a society with all its limitations has emerged as a definite tool to have an insight to interpret the past. This is a journey from particular to general as opposed to general to particular. This edited volume is a collection of articles based on two biographies, an autobiography, women's self-writing, government documents, tribal narratives which are discussed with reference to Bengal. The discourse would leave an important mark in extracting history from the personal accounts, that will definitely foster further inquisition and ideas of the blooming researchers.
Product Overview
History is not about emperors, their victories and defeats. History is about subjects, who are ruled and remain a part and parcel of a society. Autobiographies, personal memoirs throw light on the authors' contemporary times as well as reflect their mental pre occupation towards the society. Personal interpretation of a society with all its limitations has emerged as a definite tool to have an insight to interpret the past. This is a journey from particular to general as opposed to general to particular. This edited volume is a collection of articles based on two biographies, an autobiography, women's self-writing, government documents, tribal narratives which are discussed with reference to Bengal. The discourse would leave an important mark in extracting history from the personal accounts, that will definitely foster further inquisition and ideas of the blooming researchers.
Product Specification
- Genre
- Non- Fiction
- ISBN
- 978-81-953908-0-9
- Pages
- 168
- Published
- 2022
About the Editors
Aparajita Dhar is an Assistant Professor at Burdwan University, West Bengal, India. Her main areas of interest are History of Medicine, Gender Studies, Social and Economic History of Modern India, and Historiography Methodology. She completed a PhD on The Advent of Gynaecology: Western Medicine and Women in Colonial Bengal. Currently pursuing Post-Doctoral Research on the History of Nursing in Colonial India
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