Knowledge production, pedagogy, and institutions in colonial India / edited by Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali.

• Superior document: Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Sengupta, Indra.; Ali, Daud.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
• Physical Description: xv, 256 p. :; ill.

"This volume seeks to radically revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades and which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute substantially to resea...

Table of Contents

• Machine generated contents note:
• PART I: PRODUCING COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE * What's in a (Proper) Name? Particulars, Individuals and Authorship in the Linguistic Survey of India and Colonial Scholarship
• Javed Majeed * The Floating Lexicon: Hobson-Jobson and the OED
• Kate Teltscher * Missions and Museums: Hindu Gods and Other "Abominations," 1820-1860
• Geoffrey Oddie * Antiquarian Knowledge and Preservation of Indian Monuments at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
• Ann Julie Etter * PART II: HISTORICAL PLACE, HISTORICAL PASTS * Landscapes of the Past: Rajatarangini and Historical Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir
• Chitralekha Zutshi * Jaunpur, Ruination, and Conservation during the Colonial Era
• Michael Dodson * The Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Asar us-anadid
• David Lelyveld * PART III: PEDAGOGY AND TRANSFORMATION * Promoting Scientism: Institutions for Gathering and Disseminating Knowledge in British Bihar
• Peter Gottschalk * Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education in Colonial India
• Avril Powell * Teaching Emotions. Victorian Values and Sharafat in Nineteenth-century Delhi
• Margrit Pernau.