Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the
emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia,
this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the
constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing
the fashionable binaries of resistance and collaboration, the
contributors seek to re-conceptualize modernity as a local and
transitive practice of cultural conjunction. Whether through a
close reading of Anglo-Indian poetry, Urdu rhyming dictionaries,
Persian Bible translations, Jain court records, or Bengali
polemical literature, the contributors interpret South Asian
modernity as emerging from localized, partial and continuously
negotiated efforts among a variety of South Asian and European
elites. Surveying a range of individuals, regions, and movements,
this book supports reflection on the ways traditional scholars and
other colonial agents actively appropriated and re-purposed
elements of European knowledge, colonial administration, ruling
ideology, and material technologies. The book conjures a
trans-colonial and trans-national context in which ideas of
history, religion, language, science, and nation are defined across
disparate religious, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries. Providing
new insights into the negotiation and re-interpretation of Western
knowledge and modernity, this book is of interest to students and
scholars of South Asian Studies, as well as of intellectual and
colonial history, comparative literature, and religious studies.
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