Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India

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  1. Jayaprakash Narayan, "The Concept of Nationhood," Minority Forum
    (April 1972), p. 6. Later in his political career, Narayan joined hands with the Hin-
    dutva forces (who were much less assertive with limited political clout that time)
    to take Indira Gandhi to task for her authoritarian politics.

  2. Vishwanath Prasad Varma, Modern Indian Political Thought (Agra, India:
    Lakshmi Narai Agarwal, 1964), p. 413.

  3. Ibid., p. 418.

  4. Ibid., p. 424.

  5. Bhikhu Parekh, "Nehru and the National Philosophy of India," Economic
    and Political Weekly 26, nos. 1-2 (January 1991), pp. 39-41.

  6. A.R. Desai, Recent Trends in Indian Nationalism (Bombay: Popular Book
    Depot, 1960), pp. 131-34.

  7. Chakrabarty, "History as Critique," p. 2164.

  8. Irfan Habib, Interpreting Indian History (Shillong, India: North-Eastern Hill
    University Publications, n.d.), pp. 8-9.

  9. Romila Thapar, "Communalism and the Writing of Ancient Indian His-
    tory," in Communalism and the Writing of Indian History, by Romila Thapar et al.
    (New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1981), pp. 2-4.

  10. David B. Edwards, "Mad Mullahs and Englishmen: Discourse in the Colo-
    nial Encounter," Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 4 (October 1989),
    pp. 649-70.

  11. Chakrabarty, "History as Critique," p. 2163.

  12. Ronald Inden, "Orientalist Constructions of India," Modern Asian Studies
    20, no. 3 (1986), pp. 440-41.

  13. Bipan Chandra, "Historians of Modern India and Communalism," in Com-
    munalism and the Writing of Indian History, by Romila Thapar et al. (New Delhi:
    People's Publishing House, 1981), pp. 6-7.

  14. Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought, p. 79.

  15. Gyan Prakash, "Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Per-
    spectives from Indian Historiography," Comparative Studies in Society and History
    32, no. 2 (April 1990), pp. 388-89.

  16. Ibid., p. 395.

  17. See Ranajit Guha, "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial
    India," in Selected Subaltern Studies, ed. Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spi-
    vak (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 37-^3.

  18. Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India
    (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 6.

  19. Romila Thapar et al., Communalism and the Writing of Indian History (New
    Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1981), pp. 45,51.

  20. Romila Thapar, The Past and Prejudice (New Delhi: National Book Trust,
    1979), p. 3.

  21. Thapar et al., Communalism, p. 48.

  22. Thapar et al., Communalism, pp. 41-42.

  23. Qureshi, "Whither History?" p. 142.

  24. See Bipan Chandra, Communalism in Modern India (New Delhi: Vikas, 1984),
    pp. 209-11.

  25. R.C. Majumdar, "History Writing in India," Organiser, 2 November 1964.

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