Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
By: Edited by Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali
Contributors: Majeed, Javed
Edition: First edition.
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230113374
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; Colonial influence; HISTORY / Social History; Intellectual life; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; EDUCATION / History; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; History
Description: "This volume seeks to radically revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades and which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute substantially to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process, produced in historically specific, and changing, social and intellectual contexts, and as an essentially unstable, fractured and contingent set of ideas and practices, produced in unpredictable and often self-contradictory ways for different audiences. It also focuses on the very important and neglected questions of indigenous agency in producing knowledge in colonial India and the related problem of knowledge dissemination and transmission"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Producing Colonial Knowledge: -- 1.; title: What's in a (Proper) Name? Particulars, Individuals and Authorship in the Linguistic Survey of India and Colonial Scholarship  -- Javed Majeed; -- 2.; title: The Floating Lexicon: Hobson-Jobson and the OED  -- Kate Teltscher; -- 3.; title: Missions and Museums: Hindu Gods and Other "Abominations," 1820-1860  -- Geoffrey Oddie; -- 4.; title: Antiquarian Knowledge and Preservation of Indian Monuments at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century  -- Anne-Julie Etter -- Part II.; title: Historical Places, Historical Pasts: -- 5.; title: Landscapes of the Past: Rajatarangini and Historical Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir  -- Chitralekha Zutshi; -- 6.; title: Jaunpur, Ruination, and Conservation during the Colonial Era  -- Michael S. Dodson; -- 7.; title: The Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Ās̲ār us-ṣanādīd  -- David Lelyveld -- Part III.; title: Pedagogy and Transformation: -- 8.; title: Promoting Scientism: Institutions for Gathering and Disseminating Knowledge in British Bihar  -- Peter Gottschalk; -- 9.; title: Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education in Colonial India  -- Avril A. Powell; -- 10.; title: Teaching Emotions: The Encounter between Victorian Values and Indo-Persian Concepts of Civility in Nineteenth-century Delhi -- Margrit Pernau.