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The origins of modern historiography in India : antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880
- Title
- The origins of modern historiography in India : antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880 / Rama Sundari Mantena.
- Author
- Mantena, Rama Sundari, 1969-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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- Description
- xiii, 261 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Intellectual encounters abound in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India, comprising surveyors, collectors, antiquarians, philologists and their Indian assistants. The Origins of Modern Historiography in India uncovers everyday practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism in the early period of British colonial rule in India. The new historical method construed by antiquarians, philologists, and their assistants profoundly shaped access and perception of the Indian past. By examining early imperial strategies of producing historical knowledge, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of "sources," the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- "The Origins of Modern Historiography in India" * "Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives" * "Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History" * "The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras" * "Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record" * "Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu".
- Call Number
- JFD 12-2510
- ISBN
- 9780230341012 (hardback)
- 0230341012 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012000442
- OCLC
- YBP 2012000442
- Author
- Mantena, Rama Sundari, 1969-
- Title
- The origins of modern historiography in India : antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880 / Rama Sundari Mantena.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual historyPalgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-2510