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Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia / edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher.

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TextPublication details: London; New York: Routledge, c2012Description: xii, 262 p.; 25 cmISBN: 9780415780629 (hardback); 0415780624 (hardback); 9780203135396 (ebook); 0203135393 (ebook)Subject(s): Nationalism -- India -- History | Nationalism -- Philosophy -- India | National Characteristics, East Indian | India -- Colonial Influence | India -- HistoryDDC classification: 954.03

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	954.03 DOO/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P31225

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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.

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