Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia /

Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia / edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. - xii, 262 p. ; 25 cm. - Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 74 . - Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 74. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore : education and princely modernity in early nineteenth-century India / Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- Pandits at work : the modern Sastric imaginary in early colonial Bengal / Brian A. Hatcher -- Knowledge in context : Raja Shivaprasad as hybrid intellectual and people's educator / Ulrike Stark -- Modernity's script and a Tom Thumb performance : English linguistic modernity and Persian/Urdu lexicography in nineteenth-century India / Javed Majeed -- The trans-colonial opportunities of Bible translation : Iranian language workers between the Russian and British empires / Nile Green -- Indology as authoritative knowledge : Jain debates about icons and history in colonial India / John E. Cort -- A conceptual history of the social : some reflections out of colonial Bengal / Rochona Majumdar -- Three poets in search of history : Calcutta, 1752-1859 / Rosinka Chaudhuri -- A "well-travelled" theory : Mughals, Maine and modernity in the historical fiction of Romesh Chunder / Dutt Alex Padamsee -- Afterword : Bombay's "intertwined modernities," 1780-1880 / C.A. Bayly.


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Nationalism--History.--India
Nationalism--Philosophy--India.
National characteristics, East Indian.


India--Colonial influence.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

DS463 / .T698 2012

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