Mantena, Rama Sundari, 1969-
The origins of modern historiography in India: antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880 - First edition. - New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012 - xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history . - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Origins of Modern Historiography in India -- 1. Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives -- 2. Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History -- 3. The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras -- 4. Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record -- 5. "Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu -- Conclusion.
"Intellectual encounters abound in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India, comprising surveyors, collectors, antiquarians, philologists and their Indian assistants. The Origins of Modern Historiography in India uncovers everyday practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism in the early period of British colonial rule in India. The new historical method construed by antiquarians, philologists, and their assistants profoundly shaped access and perception of the Indian past. By examining early imperial strategies of producing historical knowledge, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of "sources," the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India"--
9780230396494 0230341012
40020637365
2012000442
HISTORY--India & South Asia.--Asia
HISTORY--Great Britain.--Europe
HISTORY--Modern--18th Century.
HISTORY--Modern--19th Century.
HISTORY--Historiography.
Historiography.
Geschichtsschreibung.
India--Historiography.
India.
Indien.
DS435 / .M38 2012
954.0072 / M3188
The origins of modern historiography in India: antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880 - First edition. - New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012 - xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history . - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Origins of Modern Historiography in India -- 1. Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives -- 2. Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History -- 3. The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras -- 4. Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record -- 5. "Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu -- Conclusion.
"Intellectual encounters abound in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India, comprising surveyors, collectors, antiquarians, philologists and their Indian assistants. The Origins of Modern Historiography in India uncovers everyday practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism in the early period of British colonial rule in India. The new historical method construed by antiquarians, philologists, and their assistants profoundly shaped access and perception of the Indian past. By examining early imperial strategies of producing historical knowledge, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of "sources," the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India"--
9780230396494 0230341012
40020637365
2012000442
HISTORY--India & South Asia.--Asia
HISTORY--Great Britain.--Europe
HISTORY--Modern--18th Century.
HISTORY--Modern--19th Century.
HISTORY--Historiography.
Historiography.
Geschichtsschreibung.
India--Historiography.
India.
Indien.
DS435 / .M38 2012
954.0072 / M3188