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

By: edited by Dodsong, Michael S. and Hatcher, Brian A Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; New York: Routledge, Inclu2012Description: 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:

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--

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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 DOS/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P30963

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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--

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