TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mantena,Rama Sundari
TI  - The origins of modern historiography in India: antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880
T2  - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
SN  - 9780230396494
AV  - DS435 .M38 2012
U1  - 954.0072 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Modern
KW  - 18th Century
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - Historiography
KW  - fast
KW  - Geschichtsschreibung
KW  - idszbz
KW  - India
KW  - Indien
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -