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.