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Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia Copyright Contents Preface List of contributors Introduction PART I Local agents, local modernities 1 The schools of Serfoji II of Tanjore: education and princely modernity in early nineteenth-century India 2 Pandits at work: the modern shastric imaginary in early colonial Bengal 3 Knowledge in context: Raja Shivaprasad as hybrid intellectual and people’s educator PART II Strategies of translation 4 Modernity’s script and a Tom Thumb performance: English linguistic modernity and Persian/Urdu lexicography in nineteenth-century India 5 The trans-colonial opportunities of Bible translation: Iranian language workers between the Russian and British Empires 6 Indology as authoritative knowledge: Jain debates about icons and history in colonial India PART III History and modernity 7 A conceptual history of the social: some reflections out of colonial Bengal 8 Three poets in search of history: Calcutta, 1752–1859 9 A“well-traveled” theory: Mughals, Maine and modernity in the historical fiction of Romesh Chunder Dutt Afterword: Bombay’s “intertwined modernities,” 1780–1880 Index