The Madras School of Orientalism

Producing Knowledge in Colonial South India
Herausgeber: Trautmann, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores new ideas on India's history and culture emanating from the Madras School of Orientalism in the early nineteenth century on language, history, religion and law, the Indian intellectuals. Though modelled on the Calcutta Asiatic Society, the Madras Orientalists formed a distinct school of thought and methods of analysis, claiming that Calcutta Orientalists did not understand the peculiarities of South India

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 343
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198063148
• ISBN-10: 0198063148
• Artikelnr.: 28021282

Autorenporträt

Thomas R. Trautmann is Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction, Thomas R. Trautmann;
* Section I Projects:
* 1.: Colin Mackenzie: Autobiography of an Archive, Nicholas B. Dirks;
* 2.3.: Islamic Learning at the College of Fort St George in
Nineteenth-century Madras, Sylvia Vatuk;Colin Mackenzie, the Madras
School of Orientalism, and Investigations at Mahabalipuram, Jennifer
Howes;
* Section II Indian Intellectuals:
* 4.: . 'Grammar, the Frame of Language': Tamil Pandits at the College
of Fort St. George, A.R. Venkatachalapathy;
* 5.: The Kavali Brothers: Intellectual Life in Early Colonial Madras,
Rama Sundari Mantena;
* 6.: Knowing the Deccan: Enquiries, Points, and Poets in the
Construction of Knowledge and Power in Early-Nineteenth-century
Southern India, Lisa Mitchell;
* 7.: From Manuscript to Archive to Print: The Mackenzie Collection and
Later Telugu Literary Historiography, Phillip B. Wagoner;
* Section III Language in South India:
* 8.: Tamil Munshis and Kacceri Tamil under the Company's Document Raj
in Early-Nineteenth-Century Madras Bhavani Raman;
* 9.: The College of Fort St George and the Transformation of Tamil
Philology during the Nineteenth Century, Sascha Ebeling;
* Section IV Objects of Study: Histories of Religion, Law, and Land:
* 10.: . Orientalists, Missionaries, and Jains: The South Indian Story,
Leslie Orr;
* 11.: Law in the Mirror of Language: The Madras School of Orientalism
on Hindu Law, Donald R. Davis, Jr;
* 12.: . Riot over Ryotwar, Thomas R. Trautmann