The origins of modern historiography in India
Subtitle: antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880
By: Rama Sundari Mantena
Series: Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230341012
Subjects: Historiography; HISTORY / Historiography; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
Description: "Intellectual encounters abound in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India, comprising surveyors, collectors, antiquarians, philologists and their Indian assistants. The Origins of Modern Historiography in India uncovers everyday practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism in the early period of British colonial rule in India. The new historical method construed by antiquarians, philologists, and their assistants profoundly shaped access and perception of the Indian past. By examining early imperial strategies of producing historical knowledge, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of "sources," the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: "The Origins of Modern Historiography in India" * "Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives" * "Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History" * "The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras" * "Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record" * "Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu".