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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The Origins of Modern Historiography in India" * "Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives" * "Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History" * "The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras" * "Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record" * "Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu."