Michael S Dodson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 275378 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael S Dodson |
| PRENOMES | Michael S |
| SOBRENOME | Dodson |
| ASSINATURA | DODSON M S |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings of colonial bureaucracy in the cities and argues that interactions with the colonial state were an integral aspect of the ways that Indians created a …
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
Not all tombs are created equal
Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia
Afterword Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture
In 1881 an author who counted himself amongst the ‘intelligent portion’ of Benares’ agricultural community, anonymously published a tract entitled Thoughts on India, by a Brahman.1 The book was characterised as a true representation of India’s depressed, suffering, and discontented population, and went on to identify the cause of that discontent to be the British government’s ‘more or less disguised policy of selfishness’. The purpose of the book…
Paṇḍits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe’s ‘New Knowledge’
The trope of Sanskrit scholarship’s decline is well established. British orientalists and educationalists from the mid-eighteenth century onwards argued that Sanskrit, as an intellectual enterprise, was in a state of terminal decay, and required European intervention in order to resurrect it and turn it to the cause of improvement. Similarly, contemporary Hindu extremists, in their promotion of Hindutva at the expense of Indian minorities, have c…
An Empire of the Understanding
While an integral element of the East India Company’s governance of India in the eighteenth century was its policies of cultural conciliation and the courting of indigenous elites for the influence they wielded, historiographies of the nineteenth century have tended to highlight the relative power and aloofness of the British imperial state. Certainly, the attitudes of cultural superiority and self-confidence which were a part of British strategi…
Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress
Benares has long been characterised as a paramount city within the religious landscape of Hinduism. It is perhaps best known as a place of pilgrimage for Hindus, as well as a centre of Sanskrit-based learning. Benares is mentioned as a tῑrtha in the Mahābhārata , and figures prominently in several Purāṇas , where its sacred geography and connection to Śiva, as the source of all sacred knowledge, is described. 1 In early European travelogues, the …
On Language and Translation
Translation has often been characterised as a ‘central act’ of European imperialism. 1 It has been argued that translation was utilised to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has also been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonised as Europe’s ‘civilisational other’. On the former poin…
Sanskrit Erudition and Forms of Legitimacy
Studies of early orientalist research in India have only sporadically considered in any detail the material, social and political contexts in which that body of scholarship was produced. British knowledge about India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, has largely been delineated by reference to European metropolitan intellectual genealogies, reflecting the recent historiographical emphasis upon colonial discourse analysi…
Introduction Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge
This is a book about orientalism in India. It examines the varied manifestations of literary, historical, and linguistic scholarly practices which were utilised to constitute the object ‘Indian civilisation’ through the literature of Sanskrit, from about 1770 to 1880. Given this scope, the book is necessarily selective in its focus. Yet the subjects discussed are unified throughout by the argument that the practices of orientalism were necessaril…
Orientalism and the Writing of World History
Orientalist research was an integral component of the East India Company’s conquest and governance of India. This chapter seeks to unambiguously reassert the important connections between a history of eighteenth-century orientalist research, in particular, with the rise of British imperial power in India. At the most basic level, orientalist research served to provide the colonial state with cultural information by which to rule the Company’s ter…
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture
Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orienta
Translating Science, Translating Empire
Translation has often been characterized as a 'central act' of European colonialism and imperialism. For example, it has been argued that translation had been utilized to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonized as Europe's 'civilizational…
Re-Presented for the Pandits
In January of 1853, the Lt Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, inaugurated a new building in Banaras, situated perhaps halfway between the European cantonment and the ghats which line the sacred river Ganga. Designed in a high Gothic style by Major Kittoe, this was to be the new home of the Benares College, which incorporated one of the largest, and most symbolically important, Sanskrit departments of any British educational …
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture
Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orienta
Translating Science, Translating Empire
Translation has often been characterized as a 'central act' of European colonialism and imperialism. For example, it has been argued that translation had been utilized to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonized as Europe's 'civilizational…
Re-Presented for the Pandits
In January of 1853, the Lt Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, inaugurated a new building in Banaras, situated perhaps halfway between the European cantonment and the ghats which line the sacred river Ganga. Designed in a high Gothic style by Major Kittoe, this was to be the new home of the Benares College, which incorporated one of the largest, and most symbolically important, Sanskrit departments of any British educational …
Re-Presented for the Pandits
In January of 1853, the Lt Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, inaugurated a new building in Banaras, situated perhaps halfway between the European cantonment and the ghats which line the sacred river Ganga. Designed in a high Gothic style by Major Kittoe, this was to be the new home of the Benares College, which incorporated one of the largest, and most symbolically important, Sanskrit departments of any British educational …
Translating Science, Translating Empire
Translation has often been characterized as a 'central act' of European colonialism and imperialism. For example, it has been argued that translation had been utilized to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonized as Europe's 'civilizational…
Afterword Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture
In 1881 an author who counted himself amongst the ‘intelligent portion’ of Benares’ agricultural community, anonymously published a tract entitled Thoughts on India, by a Brahman.1 The book was characterised as a true representation of India’s depressed, suffering, and discontented population, and went on to identify the cause of that discontent to be the British government’s ‘more or less disguised policy of selfishness’. The purpose of the book…
Paṇḍits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe’s ‘New Knowledge’
The trope of Sanskrit scholarship’s decline is well established. British orientalists and educationalists from the mid-eighteenth century onwards argued that Sanskrit, as an intellectual enterprise, was in a state of terminal decay, and required European intervention in order to resurrect it and turn it to the cause of improvement. Similarly, contemporary Hindu extremists, in their promotion of Hindutva at the expense of Indian minorities, have c…
An Empire of the Understanding
While an integral element of the East India Company’s governance of India in the eighteenth century was its policies of cultural conciliation and the courting of indigenous elites for the influence they wielded, historiographies of the nineteenth century have tended to highlight the relative power and aloofness of the British imperial state. Certainly, the attitudes of cultural superiority and self-confidence which were a part of British strategi…
Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress
Benares has long been characterised as a paramount city within the religious landscape of Hinduism. It is perhaps best known as a place of pilgrimage for Hindus, as well as a centre of Sanskrit-based learning. Benares is mentioned as a tῑrtha in the Mahābhārata , and figures prominently in several Purāṇas , where its sacred geography and connection to Śiva, as the source of all sacred knowledge, is described. 1 In early European travelogues, the …
On Language and Translation
Translation has often been characterised as a ‘central act’ of European imperialism. 1 It has been argued that translation was utilised to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has also been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonised as Europe’s ‘civilisational other’. On the former poin…
Sanskrit Erudition and Forms of Legitimacy
Studies of early orientalist research in India have only sporadically considered in any detail the material, social and political contexts in which that body of scholarship was produced. British knowledge about India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, has largely been delineated by reference to European metropolitan intellectual genealogies, reflecting the recent historiographical emphasis upon colonial discourse analysi…
Introduction Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge
This is a book about orientalism in India. It examines the varied manifestations of literary, historical, and linguistic scholarly practices which were utilised to constitute the object ‘Indian civilisation’ through the literature of Sanskrit, from about 1770 to 1880. Given this scope, the book is necessarily selective in its focus. Yet the subjects discussed are unified throughout by the argument that the practices of orientalism were necessaril…
Orientalism and the Writing of World History
Orientalist research was an integral component of the East India Company’s conquest and governance of India. This chapter seeks to unambiguously reassert the important connections between a history of eighteenth-century orientalist research, in particular, with the rise of British imperial power in India. At the most basic level, orientalist research served to provide the colonial state with cultural information by which to rule the Company’s ter…
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture
Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orienta
Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings of colonial bureaucracy in the cities and argues that interactions with the colonial state were an integral aspect of the ways that Indians created a …
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
Not all tombs are created equal
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