The origins of modern historiography in India : antiquarianism and philology, 1780-1880 /

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 ant...

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Main Author:	Mantena, Rama Sundari, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
Subjects:	India > Historiography. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century. HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. HISTORY / Historiography.