Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia
By: edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher
Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia -- 74; Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) -- 74.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780415780629; 9780203135396
Subjects: East Indian National characteristics; Philosophy; Nationalism; Colonial influence; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore : education and princely modernity in early nineteenth-century India / Indira Viswanathan Peterson; title: Pandits at work : the modern Sastric imaginary in early colonial Bengal / Brian A. Hatcher; title: Knowledge in context : Raja Shivaprasad as hybrid intellectual and people's educator / Ulrike Stark; title: Modernity's script and a Tom Thumb performance : English linguistic modernity and Persian/Urdu lexicography in nineteenth-century India / Javed Majeed; title: The trans-colonial opportunities of Bible translation : Iranian language workers between the Russian and British empires / Nile Green; title: Indology as authoritative knowledge : Jain debates about icons and history in colonial India / John E. Cort; title: A conceptual history of the social : some reflections out of colonial Bengal / Rochona Majumdar; title: Three poets in search of history : Calcutta, 1752-1859 / Rosinka Chaudhuri; title: A "well-travelled" theory : Mughals, Maine and modernity in the historical fiction of Romesh Chunder / Dutt Alex Padamsee; title: Afterword : Bombay's "intertwined modernities," 1780-1880 / C.A. Bayly.