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Knowledge production, pedagogy, and institutions in colonial India /
"This volume seeks to radically 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 substantially to research...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
©2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Producing Colonial Knowledge: 1. What's in a (Proper) Name? Particulars, Individuals and Authorship in the Linguistic Survey of India and Colonial Scholarship / Javed Majeed; 2. The Floating Lexicon: Hobson-Jobson and the OED / Kate Teltscher; 3. Missions and Museums: Hindu Gods and Other "Abominations," 1820-1860 / Geoffrey Oddie; 4. Antiquarian Knowledge and Preservation of Indian Monuments at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century / Anne-Julie Etter
- Part II. Historical Places, Historical Pasts: 5. Landscapes of the Past: Rajatarangini and Historical Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir / Chitralekha Zutshi; 6. Jaunpur, Ruination, and Conservation during the Colonial Era / Michael S. Dodson; 7. The Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Ās̲ār us-ṣanādīd / David Lelyveld
- Part III. Pedagogy and Transformation: 8. Promoting Scientism: Institutions for Gathering and Disseminating Knowledge in British Bihar / Peter Gottschalk; 9. Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education in Colonial India / Avril A. Powell; 10. Teaching Emotions: The Encounter between Victorian Values and Indo-Persian Concepts of Civility in Nineteenth-century Delhi / Margrit Pernau.