TY  - BOOK
TI  - Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia
SN  - 9780415780629 (hardback)
U1  - 954.03 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - National Characteristics, East Indian
KW  - Colonial Influence
N1  - 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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