These essays represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history. They examine the historian's practices and assumptions, being mainly concerned with finding a set of practices of history-writing that are both truthful and ethical. They are united by the desire to find a way out of the self-constructed cage of scientific history that has made historians wary of the popular.
Author Biography
Partha Chatterjee is an internationally renowned historian, a founder member of Subaltern Studies, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, and Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Anjan Ghosh is a professorial Fellow of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
