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Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia / edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher. - London; New York: Routledge, c2012. - xii, 262 p.; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Part I -- Local Agents, Local Modernities
The schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore : education and princely modernity in early nineteenth-century India / Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Pandits at work: the modern Sastric imaginary in early colonial Bengal / Brian A. Hatcher
Knowledge in context: Raja Shivaprasad as hybrid intellectual and people's educator / Ulrike Stark

Part II -- Strategies of translation
Modernity's script and a Tom Thumb performance: English linguistic modernity 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

PArt III -- 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 Chaudhuri
A "well-travelled" theory: Mughals, Maine and modernity in the historical fiction of Romesh Chunder / Dutt Alex Padamsee
Afterword: Bombay's "intertwined modernities," 1780-1880 / C.A. Bayly.

ISBN: 9780415780629 (hardback) 0415780624 (hardback) 9780203135396 (ebook) 0203135393 (ebook)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nationalism--History--India
Nationalism--Philosophy--India
National Characteristics, East Indian

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Colonial Influence
India--History

Dewey Class. No.: 954.03 / DOO/T