Archives are not neutral, and Nicholas B. Dirks uses his own scholarly career to show how they shape what historians are able to say. The book sits between memoir, intellectual history and methodological argument.
Dirks traces the intersection of history and anthropology in the study of India, examining how colonial records, fieldwork and cultural encounter produced particular kinds of knowledge. Alongside that runs an account of how historical research itself changed across the late twentieth century. The questions raised are practical as well as theoretical: which voices enter the record, who curates them, and what that means for anyone writing about the past.
Practical points:
• Memoir and intellectual history combined in one narrative
• Discussion of archives, fieldwork and knowledge production
• Material on colonialism and the historiography of India
• Complex academic argument rendered in clear prose
Aimed at researchers, postgraduate students and readers of postcolonial studies, available in English at Boipoka.
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