Title: The origins of modern historiography in India
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"--
Subjects: Historiography, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, India, historiography, HISTORY, India & South Asia, Great Britain, Modern, 18th Century, 19th Century, Geschichtsschreibung
Places: India