I. Sengupta, D. Ali

Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-60484-2
• 1st ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm
• ISBN-13: 9781137604842
• ISBN-10: 1137604840
• Artikelnr.: 44688701

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: PRODUCING COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE What's in a (Proper) Name? Particulars, Individuals and Authorship in the Linguistic Survey of India and Colonial Scholarship - Javed Majeed The Floating Lexicon: Hobson-Jobson and the OED - Kate Teltscher Missions and Museums: Hindu Gods and Other 'Abominations,' 1820-1860 - Geoffrey Oddie Antiquarian Knowledge and Preservation of Indian Monuments at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century - Ann Julie Etter PART II: HISTORICAL PLACES, HISTORICAL PASTS Landscapes of the Past: Rajatarangini and Historical Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir - Chitralekha Zutshi Jaunpur, Ruination, and Conservation during the Colonial Era - Michael Dodson The Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Asar us-?anadid - David Lelyveld PART III: PEDAGOGY AND TRANSFORMATION Promoting Scientism: Institutions for Gathering and Disseminating Knowledge in British Bihar - Peter Gottschalk Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education in Colonial India - Avril Powell Teaching Emotions. Victorian Values and Sharafat in Nineteenth-century Delhi - Margrit Pernau

Rezensionen

"This is a very timely collection. The issue of colonial knowledge has been at the forefront of the study of South Asia for more than a decade. However, the paradigms originally informing it have become increasingly frayed, and the debates surrounding it ever more tired. This book offers to re-invigorate the issues and to take inquiries in more profitable directions." - David Washbrook, Fellow, History, Trinity College, Cambridge