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Autore |
Irschick Eugene F |
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Titolo |
Dialogue and history : constructing South India, 1795-1895 / / Eugene F. Irschick |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-91432-5 |
0-585-33993-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 263 p. ) : maps ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East |
History & Archaeology |
South Asia |
India, South History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and Other Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. To Fix the People to Their Respective Villages -- 2. Using the Past to Create the Future -- 3. The Rise and Consolidation of the Chingleput Mirasidars -- 4. From Slaves to the Original Dravidians -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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