In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical Memory in world-historical context.
By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational.
He presents Memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records.
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical Memory in world-historical context