Knowing India
Subtitle: colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in honor of Thomas R. Trautmann
By: [edited by Cynthia Talbot]
Series: New perspectives on Indian pasts; New perspectives on Indian pasts
Publisher: Yoda Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9789380403038
Subjects: Congresses; History
Description: Thomas R. Trautmann, American historian; papers presented at a conference on "Conceptualizing South Asia's past at Michigan", held at Ann Arbor during 5-6 October 2007.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Perceptions of India and its pasts : an introduction / Cynthia Talbot; title: Musings on (mosaic) ethnology, language, and kinship. Language fields : Robert Needham Cust's language map of South Asia, 1878 / Judith T. Irvine ; Thomas Maurice and docmestic orientalism, c. 1790-1820 / Michael S. Dodson ; Henry George Raverty and the colonial marketing of Pashto / Sha Mahmoud Hanifi ; Muslim kinship in the Dravidian heartland : kinship terminology and close kin marriage among Urdu-speaking Nawayats / Sylvia Vatuk; title: Seeing the precolonial through colonial/modern eyes. Recovering attestation practices from the footnotes of a colonial history : the Treatise on Mirasi rights revisited / Bhavani Raman ; Contesting knowledges in colonial India : the question of Prithviraj Raso's historicity / Cynthia Talbot ; Astral time : almanacs and colonial modernity in Bengal / Parna Sengupta ; Sex and hte city : debates over the medieval pasts of Khajuraho / Anne Hardgrove ; Hindu sects and Hindu religion : precolonial and colonial concepts / David N. Lorenzen; title: Taking the long perspective : the precolonial past. Was there historical writing in early India? / Romila Thapar; title: Local histories and historical narratives in the central Tungabhadra region of south India / Carla M. Sinopoli ; Secondary cities and urban networking in Cola-era south India / Kenneth R. Hall ; Will the winner please stand up : conflicting narratives of a seventeenth-century philosophical debate from Karnataka / Madhav M. Deshpande; title: Tributes to Trautmann. Trautmann's gift : Dravidian kinship as Dana / Tom Fricke ; The Paramparas of Trautmann / Richard H. Davis ; Excavations of British and Indian intellectual traditions in Thomas R. Trautmann's Languages & nations / Rama Sundari Mantena.