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Smuts Commonwealth Lecture - Empire and the Historical Imagination in Colonial India

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This lecture will focus on the question of how the modern academic discipline of history travelled to India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and gave rise to a fundamentally anachronistic and utopian understanding of the eighteenth century among nationalist historians.

This talk is part of the Social Anthropology series.

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