Dialogue and History
Dialogue and History

Author: Eugene F. Irschick

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994-04-05

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0520084055

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Annotation Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. For centuries, agricultural life in South India was seminomadic. But when the British took dominion, they sought to stabilize the region by inventing a Tamil "golden age" of sedentary, prosperous villages. Irschick shows that this construction resulted not from overt British manipulation but from an intricate cross-pollination of both European and native ideas. He argues that the Tamil played a critical role in constructing their past and thus shaping their future. And British administrators adapted local customs to their own uses.

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Record of Services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency, From 1741 to 1858
Record of Services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency, From 1741 to 1858

Author: Charles Campbell Prinsep

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780342270323

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