Archiving the British Raj

History of the Archival Policy of the Government of India, with Selected Documents, 1858-1947

Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2018
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948992-3 (ISBN)

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Generally the archives are sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are the archives objects of research. Archiving the Raj traces the path that led to creation of a central archive in India. In examining the archival policy of the colonial government, it proceeds to explore the complex relationship between knowledge and power. While a section of British political authorities favoured accurate archiving of historical events and limited access to records for selected non-official researchers, the overwhelming opinion in official circles was against such access. In the last two decades of colonial rule in India there were anticipations of freedom in many areas of the public sphere, and, in many ways, these were felt in the domain of archiving, chiefly in the form of reversal of earlier policies. From this perspective, the author discusses how the World Wars, the decline of Britain, among other factors, effected a transition from a Euro-centric and disparaging approach to India towards a more liberal and less ethnocentric approach.

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He was earlier Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published several volumes with OUP, India, including The Defining Moments in Bengal, 1920-1947 (2014) and Talking Back: The Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse (2011). For the former, he was awarded the H.K. Barpujari award at Indian History Congress in December 2017.

Foreword by Pritam Singh
Introduction

1. 1858 to 1871: Absence of a Definite Archives Policy

2. Developments Leading to the Creation of a Central Archive:
1872-1891

3. The Imperial Record Department: Objectives and
Achievements, 1891-1926

4. Anticipations of Freedom: 1927-1947

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2019
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 223 mm
Gewicht	402 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	0-19-948992-0 / 0199489920
ISBN-13	978-0-19-948992-3 / 9780199489923
Zustand	Neuware