The Origins of Modern Historiography in India

R. Mantena

ISBN 10: 1349343781 / ISBN 13: 9781349343782

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, 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. 276 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: The Origins of Modern Historiography in India
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2012
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1349343781
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781349343782
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 351 grammes

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Synopsis

This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, 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.

À propos de l?auteur

RAMA SUNDARI MANTENA Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.