Knowing India : colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in honor of Thomas R. Trautmann / [edited by Cynthia Talbot].
Material type: TextSeries: New perspectives on Indian pastsPublication details: New Delhi : Yoda Press, 2011.Description: xii, 409 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:- 9380403038 (pbk.)
- 9789380403038 (pbk.)
- 954 TRA/Kno 23
- DS402.5 .K56 2011
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Includes bibliographical references.
Perceptions of India and its pasts : an introduction / Cynthia Talbot -- Musings on (mosaic) ethnology, language, and kinship. Language fields : Robert Needham Cust's language map of South Asia, 1878 / Judith T. Irvine ; Thomas Maurice and docmestic orientalism, c. 1790-1820 / Michael S. Dodson ; Henry George Raverty and the colonial marketing of Pashto / Sha Mahmoud Hanifi ; Muslim kinship in the Dravidian heartland : kinship terminology and close kin marriage among Urdu-speaking Nawayats / Sylvia Vatuk -- Seeing the precolonial through colonial/modern eyes. Recovering attestation practices from the footnotes of a colonial history : the Treatise on Mirasi rights revisited / Bhavani Raman ; Contesting knowledges in colonial India : the question of Prithviraj Raso's historicity / Cynthia Talbot ; Astral time : almanacs and colonial modernity in Bengal / Parna Sengupta ; Sex and hte city : debates over the medieval pasts of Khajuraho / Anne Hardgrove ; Hindu sects and Hindu religion : precolonial and colonial concepts / David N. Lorenzen -- Taking the long perspective : the precolonial past. Was there historical writing in early India? / Romila Thapar -- Local histories and historical narratives in the central Tungabhadra region of south India / Carla M. Sinopoli ; Secondary cities and urban networking in Cola-era south India / Kenneth R. Hall ; Will the winner please stand up : conflicting narratives of a seventeenth-century philosophical debate from Karnataka / Madhav M. Deshpande -- Tributes to Trautmann. Trautmann's gift : Dravidian kinship as Dana / Tom Fricke ; The Paramparas of Trautmann / Richard H. Davis ; Excavations of British and Indian intellectual traditions in Thomas R. Trautmann's Languages & nations / Rama Sundari Mantena.
Thomas R. Trautmann, American historian; papers presented at a conference on "Conceptualizing South Asia's past at Michigan", held at Ann Arbor during 5-6 October 2007.
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