A Lover's Quarrel With the Past

Ghosh (English, U. of North Bengal) brings a fresh non-historian perspective to the study of history, exploring in his central conceit, culture's romance and frustrations with the past in relation to the present. Focusing primarily on India, this slim but rich work addresses how history and analysis connect, and how history simultaneously transcends and acts as foundation for a complex understanding of the world in a variety of contexts such as ethics, religion, and global politics. Sections include rumination on a historian's ethics, history and memory, and presence in and intangibles of history. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He is widely published in leading international journals such as Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, Parallax, Rethinking History, Comparatist, Comparative Drama, South Asia, SubStance, symploke, Angelaki, and others. He is author/editor of many books, including Globalizing Dissent (Routledge, 2008), Edward Said and The Literary, Social, and Political World (Routledge, 2009), Making Sense of the Secular (Routledge, 2012). His website is: http://www.ranjanghosh.com.