How Long to Read Essays of a Lifetime

How Long Does it Take to Read Essays of a Lifetime?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 21 minutes to read Essays of a Lifetime by Sumit Sarkar

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes. For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: “Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument.” Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 1885–1947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkar’s finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest. “ here we see Sarkar grappling with his intellectual heritage, negotiating his own location within the new Marxist nationalist history of the period. Working within its frame, he pushes at the boundaries, disturbing neat classificatory schemes, resisting false historical comparisons, problematizing categories, and questioning linear narratives. The desire to explore contrary experiences and contradictory pictures is part of his process of questioning.” — Neeladri Bhattacharya

How long is Essays of a Lifetime?

Essays of a Lifetime by Sumit Sarkar is 666 pages long, and a total of 170,496 words.

This makes it 225% the length of the average book. It also has 208% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Essays of a Lifetime Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 31 minutes to read Essays of a Lifetime aloud.

What Reading Level is Essays of a Lifetime?

Essays of a Lifetime is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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