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The Calling of History The Calling of History Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth Dipesh Chakrabarty The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, also published by the Universty of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2015 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2015. Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5 isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 10044- 9 (cloth) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 10045- 6 (paper) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 24024- 4 (e- book) doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226240244.001.0001 Illustration on page ii: Jadunath Sarkar (ca. 1926). Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Archives, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Used with permission. Chakrabarty, Dipesh, author. The calling of history : Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his empire of truth / Dipesh Chakrabarty. pages cm Includes index. isbn 978- 0- 226- 10044- 9 (cloth : alk. paper)— isbn 978- 0- 226- 10045- 6 (pbk. : alk. paper)— isbn 978- 0- 226- 24024- 4 (e- book) 1. Sarkar, Jadunath, Sir, 1870– 1958. 2. Historians— India— Biography. 3. India— Historiography. 4. Historiography. I. Title. ds435.7.s26c53 2015 907.2′02— dc23 [B] 2014041928 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). To those who showed me the way: the late Barun De and Asok Sen in Calcutta; Anthony Low and Ranajit Guha in Canberra; the late Greg Dening in Melbourne And to Rochona, who shares the journey every day. Contents List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 The Popular Origins of Academic History 38 2 Debating Research 66 3 Hunters and Gatherers of Historical Documents 103 4 The Politics of “Unquestionable” Facts 133 5 The Statesman as Hero: An Imperial Aesthetic for a National History 167 6 Between Providence and Character: The Historian Himself 206 7 Archiving the Nation: Sarkar’s Fall from Grace 241 8 The Author and the Historian: A Conversational Reverie 278 Acknowledgments 289 Index 295 Abbreviations dcl, Deccan College Library goi, Government of India ihrc Proceedings, Indian Historical Records Commission, Proceedings of the Meetings ihrc retrospect, Indian Historical Records Commission: A Retrospect, 1919– 1948 ird, Imperial Record Department jsp, Jadunath Sarkar Papers nai, National Archives of India, Delhi nl, National Library, Calcutta sp, Sardesai Papers (Kamshet), digital copies in the author’s personal collection
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