Origins of Modern Historiography in India
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781137011923 |
| Open Library | OL27350459W |
| Total publications | 6 |
| Coverage period | 2012 - 2012 |
| Language | EN |
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu
Conquest and History
In 1798, the Court of Directors of the English East India Company (EIC) issued a “General Letter ” to the colonial government in Bengal addressing the growing need for a library to house Oriental manuscripts: 1 You will have observed by our despatches from time to time, that we have invariably manifested as the occasion required our disposition for the encouragement of Indian Literature. We understand it has been of late years, a frequent practic…
Colin Mackenzie’s Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record
Warren Hastings's policies in his early years as governor-general set an explicit intellectual agenda toward recovering original and "pure" Hindu social and political institutions from historical obscurity.1 This Hindu orientation, which was also taken up by the research agenda at the Asiatic Society of Bengal, characterizes much of early colonial engagement with Indian textual traditions. Colin Mackenzie felt the reverberations of this as he him…
Conclusion
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India set out to argue that what resulted from the two disciplinary dispositions of antiquarianism and philology in early colonial India was a greater adherence to a progressive conception of history and an empirical historical method that privileged the establishment of "fact" and a linear "chronology" over precolonial narrative traditions of legitimacy, which were differently structured to convey historic…
The Kavali Brothers
John Leyden, a Madras Orientalist, wrote piercingly of the inhospitable relationship that existed between Indians and Europeans in Madras.1 The prejudices of the Bramins have, however, relaxed very little in our presidency, and excepting Mr. Ellis, there is scarce a person that has been able to break ground in this field of literature. Major Wilks, acting Resident at Mysore, informed me, that some years ago, incited by the example of Wilkins and …
Introduction
It is indisputable that the status of historical knowledge in modern India has been highly contested in the colonial and postcolonial eras. Because history and history writing were so essential to the nationalist project, they were accorded a central place in postindependence India—whose first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was himself an accomplished amateur historian. While a political prisoner in the early 1940s, Nehru wrote his sweeping hi…
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu
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Conquest and History
In 1798, the Court of Directors of the English East India Company (EIC) issued a “General Letter ” to the colonial government in Bengal addressing the growing need for a library to house Oriental manuscripts: 1 You will have observed by our despatches from time to time, that we have invariably manifested as the occasion required our disposition for the encouragement of Indian Literature. We understand it has been of late years, a frequent practic…
Colin Mackenzie’s Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record
Warren Hastings's policies in his early years as governor-general set an explicit intellectual agenda toward recovering original and "pure" Hindu social and political institutions from historical obscurity.1 This Hindu orientation, which was also taken up by the research agenda at the Asiatic Society of Bengal, characterizes much of early colonial engagement with Indian textual traditions. Colin Mackenzie felt the reverberations of this as he him…
Conclusion
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India set out to argue that what resulted from the two disciplinary dispositions of antiquarianism and philology in early colonial India was a greater adherence to a progressive conception of history and an empirical historical method that privileged the establishment of "fact" and a linear "chronology" over precolonial narrative traditions of legitimacy, which were differently structured to convey historic…
The Kavali Brothers
John Leyden, a Madras Orientalist, wrote piercingly of the inhospitable relationship that existed between Indians and Europeans in Madras.1 The prejudices of the Bramins have, however, relaxed very little in our presidency, and excepting Mr. Ellis, there is scarce a person that has been able to break ground in this field of literature. Major Wilks, acting Resident at Mysore, informed me, that some years ago, incited by the example of Wilkins and …
Introduction
It is indisputable that the status of historical knowledge in modern India has been highly contested in the colonial and postcolonial eras. Because history and history writing were so essential to the nationalist project, they were accorded a central place in postindependence India—whose first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was himself an accomplished amateur historian. While a political prisoner in the early 1940s, Nehru wrote his sweeping hi…
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India Conquest and History: The Making of Colonial Archives Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History The Kavali Brothers: Native Intellectuals in Early Colonial Madras Colin Mackenzie's Archival Project and the Telugu Historical Record Colonial Philology and the Progressive History of Telugu