Lover's Quarrel with the Past

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal. He is widely published in journals like Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, parallax, Rethinking History, South Asia, SubStance, symploke, Angelaki,and others. Among his ten books include Edward Said, the Literary, Social and the Political World (Routledge,2009), Making Sense of the Secular (Routledge, forthcoming). To know more about his work one may visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com

• Acknowledgements Foreword: Imagination and Fact: A Lover's Quarrel Frank Ankersmit The Quarrel Begins - Chapter 1. Romancing the Past: Presence and Intangibilities of History Chapter 2. Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation: History and Memory Chapter 3. Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? The Historian's Ethics and the Ethics of Historical Reading Afterword: The Quarrel Continues... Mark Bevir and Ranjan Ghosh Bibliography Notes on contributors Index

"[A] fascinating account of Indian historical consciousness and of how India relates to its past." * From the Foreword "Ranjan Ghosh has written an original and important work - The quality of the thinking and argument is very high - Ghosh has managed to construct the book in a very clever way so as to bring together an exact and engaging meditation on current state of the philosophy and theory of history and an important historiographical examination of how India relates to its past." * Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University "This is an outstanding and remarkable book, beautifully written and meticulously structured. The main virtue of the text is that it operates on several levels, allowing for a wide readership without sacrificing profundity and originality - [I]t integrates theoretical acumen with a profound meditation on love and the nature of emotional and affective relations. It is distinguished from anything else in its field but is not negatively polemical." * Claire Colebrook, Penn State University