Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore : education and princely modernity in early nineteenth-century India / Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- Pandits at work : the modern Sastric imaginary in early colonial Bengal / Brian A. Hatcher -- Knowledge in context : Raja Shivaprasad as hybrid intellectual and people's educator / Ulrike Stark -- Modernity's script and a Tom Thumb performance : English linguistic modernity and Persian/Urdu lexicography in nineteenth-century India / Javed Majeed -- The trans-colonial opportunities of Bible translation : Iranian language workers between the Russian and British empires / Nile Green -- Indology as authoritative knowledge : Jain debates about icons and history in colonial India / John E. Cort -- A conceptual history of the social : some reflections out of colonial Bengal / Rochona Majumdar -- Three poets in search of history : Calcutta, 1752-1859 / Rosinka Chaudhuri -- A "well-travelled" theory : Mughals, Maine and modernity in the historical fiction of Romesh Chunder / Dutt Alex Padamsee -- Afterword : Bombay's "intertwined modernities," 1780-1880 / C.A. Bayly.