Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415780629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Dr Michael S. Dodson; Brian Hatcher

Opis

The generation of national cultures in colonized areas of Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has most often been traced to the cultural-textual production of emerging middle-class' elites. This book presents cutting-edge interpretations of the emergence of Asian nationalism, calling special attention to the realms of national' science, religion, and philosophy. Promoting the comparison of traditional' scholars and elites in a trans-colonial, trans-national context, this unique book focuses on the formation of national identities that appropriated elements of colonial administration, ideology, and structure, as these were grafted onto ideas of nationhood that themselves cut across various religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. The articulation of such discourses as Pan-Islamic, Pan-Arab, or South and Southeast-Asian nationalism is emphasised, and the book covers a variety of geographical regions, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. To the fore will be the examination of religious and scientific scholarship within the traditions of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as in lesser-studies languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi/Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Malay, and Chinese. Providing new insights into the negotiation and re-interpretation of Western knowledge and modernity and the genealogy of the concept of the nation', this book will be of interested to a wide academic audience across different subject areas, including Asian and Middle East Studies, intellectual and colonial history and religious studies.

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Preface  Introduction Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher  Part 1: Local Agents, Local Modernities  1. The Schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore: Education and Princely Modernity in Early Nineteenth-Century India Indira Viswanathan Peterson 2. Pandits at Work: The Modern Sastric Imaginary in Early Colonial Bengal Brian A. Hatcher 3. Knowledge in Context: Raja Shivaprasad as Hybrid Intellectual and People’s Educator Ulrike Stark  Part 2: Strategies of Translation  4. Modernity’s Script and a Tom Thumb Performance: English Linguistic Modernity and Persian/Urdu Lexicography in Nineteenth-Century India Javed Majeed 5. The Trans-Colonial Opportunities of Bible Translation: Iranian Language Workers between the Russian and British Empires Nile Green 6. Indology as Authoritative Knowledge: Jain Debates about Icons and History in Colonial India John E. Cort  Part 3: History and Modernity  7. A Conceptual History of the Social: Some Reflections out of Colonial Bengal Rochona Majumdar 8. Three Poets in Search of History: Calcutta, 1752-1859 Rosinka Chaudhuri 9. A "Well-Travelled" Theory: Mughals, Maine and Modernity in the Historical Fiction of Romesh Chunder Dutt Alex Padamsee  Afterword: Bombay’s "Intertwined Modernities," 1780-1880 C. A. Bayly