Book contents
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Imperial Context
- Part II After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
- Part III Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies
- 11 Jewish Art: Before and After the Jewish State (1948)
- 12 Whose History Is It Anyway? Contests for India’s Past in the Twentieth Century
- 13 Acculturated Natives Who Rebel: Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist Engagements with Early Islamic Art (1876–1930s)
- 14 Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Art, Race and Religion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
12 - Whose History Is It Anyway? Contests for India’s Past in the Twentieth Century
from Part III - Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies
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Book contents
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Imperial Context
- Part II After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
- Part III Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies
- 11 Jewish Art: Before and After the Jewish State (1948)
- 12 Whose History Is It Anyway? Contests for India’s Past in the Twentieth Century
- 13 Acculturated Natives Who Rebel: Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist Engagements with Early Islamic Art (1876–1930s)
- 14 Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Art, Race and Religion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
If you believe that the past cannot be owned, you are simultaneously correct, idealistic, and naïve. Ownership of the past – both of the material things which survive from it and act as public signifiers for our reconstructions, and the right to tell stories about those things – is frequently contested, as different people seek to own that which cannot be owned. The range of participants and the distance between their positions in Indian, and by extension South Asian, history is perhaps greater than any other field, excepting perhaps the history of Judaism.
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- Empires of Faith in Late AntiquityHistories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland, pp. 320 - 360Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020