edited by Dodsong, Michael S. and Hatcher, Brian A.
Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia /
edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher.
- London; New York: Routledge, Inclu2012.
- xii, 262 p.; 25 cm.
Includes index.
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Local agents, local modernities-- The schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore: education and princely modernity in early nineteenth-century India INDIRA VIS WANATHAN PETERSON-- Pandits at work: the modem shastric imaginary in early colonial Bengal BRIAN A. HATCHER-- Knowledge in context: Raja Shivaprasad as hybrid intellectual and people’s educator ULRIKE STARK-- 2 Strategies of translation-- Modemity’s script and a Tom Thumb performance: English linguistic modemity and Persian/Urdu lexicography in nineteenth-century India JAVED MAJEED-- The trans-colonial opportunities of Bible translation: Iranian language workers between the Russian and British Empires NILE GREEN-- Indology as authoritative knowledge: Jain debates about icons and history in colonial India JOHN E. CORT-- 3 History and modernity-- A conceptual history of the social: some reflections out of colonial Bengal ROCHONA MAJUMDAR-- Three poets in search of history: Calcutta, 1752-1859 ROSINKA CHAUDHURJ-- A "well-traveled" theory: Mughals, Maine and modernity in the historical fiction of Romesh Chunder Dutt ALEX PADAMSEE--