Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time : Rethinking Ways of Doing a Social History of Time

Abstract

It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions the burgeoning fetish of plural time. Using an expanded notion of social history, the prevailing trend in the theory and practice of history is questioned by emphasizing to distinguish between time and temporality.