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Calling of History

A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870 1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical…

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A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870 1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and anti-colonialism. "The Calling of History" examines Sarkar s career and poignant obsolescence as a way into larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life.Through close readings of more than twelve hundred letters to and from Sarkar along with other archival documents, Dipesh Chakrabarty demonstrates that historians in colonial India formulated the basic concepts and practices of the field via vigorous and at times bitter and hurtful debates in the public sphere. He

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