Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher.
• Other Names: Dodson, Michael S, 1968-; Hatcher, Brian A (Brian Allison)
• Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 954.03; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General; Nationalism -- India -- History; Nationalism -- Philosophy -- India; National characteristics, East Indian; India -- Colonial influence; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136484452; 1136484450
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.