β Scribed by Michael S. Dodson; Brian Allison Hatcher
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Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia
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Contents
Preface
List of contributors
Introduction
PART I Local agents, local modernities
1 The schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore: education and princely modernity in early nineteenth-century India
2 Pandits at work: the modern shastric imaginary in early colonial Bengal
3 Knowledge in context: Raja Shivaprasad as hybrid intellectual and peopleβs educator
PART II Strategies of translation
4 Modernityβs script and a Tom Thumb performance: English linguistic modernity and Persian/Urdu lexicography in nineteenth-century India
5 The trans-colonial opportunities of Bible translation: Iranian language workers between the Russian and British Empires
6 Indology as authoritative knowledge: Jain debates about icons and history in colonial India
PART III History and modernity
7 A conceptual history of the social: some reflections out of colonial Bengal
8 Three poets in search of history: Calcutta, 1752β1859
9 Aβwell-traveledβ theory: Mughals, Maine and modernity in the historical fiction of Romesh Chunder Dutt
Afterword: Bombayβs βintertwined modernities,β 1780β1880
Index
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