Research Catalog

Title

Knowing India : colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in honor of Thomas R. Trautmann / [edited by Cynthia Talbot].

Publication

New Delhi : Yoda Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Trautmann, Thomas R.
• Talbot, Cynthia.

Description

xii, 409 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

Summary

Thomas R. Trautmann, American historian; papers presented at a conference on "Conceptualizing South Asia's past at Michigan", held at Ann Arbor during 5-6 October 2007.

Series Statement

New perspectives on Indian pasts

Uniform Title

New perspectives on Indian pasts.

Subjects

• India, South > History > Congresses
• India > History > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Perceptions of India and its pasts : an introduction / Cynthia Talbot -- Musings on (mosaic) ethnology, language, and kinship. Language fields : Robert Needham Cust's language map of South Asia, 1878 / Judith T. Irvine ; Thomas Maurice and docmestic orientalism, c. 1790-1820 / Michael S. Dodson ; Henry George Raverty and the colonial marketing of Pashto / Sha Mahmoud Hanifi ; Muslim kinship in the Dravidian heartland : kinship terminology and close kin marriage among Urdu-speaking Nawayats / Sylvia Vatuk -- Seeing the precolonial through colonial/modern eyes. Recovering attestation practices from the footnotes of a colonial history : the Treatise on Mirasi rights revisited / Bhavani Raman ; Contesting knowledges in colonial India : the question of Prithviraj Raso's historicity / Cynthia Talbot ; Astral time : almanacs and colonial modernity in Bengal / Parna Sengupta ; Sex and hte city : debates over the medieval pasts of Khajuraho / Anne Hardgrove ; Hindu sects and Hindu religion : precolonial and colonial concepts / David N. Lorenzen -- Taking the long perspective : the precolonial past. Was there historical writing in early India? / Romila Thapar -- Local histories and historical narratives in the central Tungabhadra region of south India / Carla M. Sinopoli ; Secondary cities and urban networking in Cola-era south India / Kenneth R. Hall ; Will the winner please stand up : conflicting narratives of a seventeenth-century philosophical debate from Karnataka / Madhav M. Deshpande -- Tributes to Trautmann. Trautmann's gift : Dravidian kinship as Dana / Tom Fricke ; The Paramparas of Trautmann / Richard H. Davis ; Excavations of British and Indian intellectual traditions in Thomas R. Trautmann's Languages & nations / Rama Sundari Mantena.

ISBN

• 9380403038 (pbk.)
• 9789380403038 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocn768399130
• SCSB-5637723

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries