Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia / edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, c2012.
Description
xii, 262 p. ; 25 cm.

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    Series
    • Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 74. [More in this series]
    • Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 74
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780415780629 (hardback)
    • 0415780624 (hardback)
    • 9780203135396 (ebook)
    • 0203135393 (ebook)
    LCCN
    2011030245
    OCLC
    641536129
    Other standard number
    • 40020581346
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