The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880

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

Author: R. Mantena
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/29/2012
Pages: 261
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230341012

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