TY - BOOK AU - edited by Dodsong, Michael S. and Hatcher, Brian A. 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; 1 ; 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-- ER -