Dialogue and history : constructing South India, 1795-1895 / / Eugene F. Irschick

• Autore: Irschick Eugene F
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 263 p. ) : maps
• Disciplina: 954/.8031
• Soggetto topico: Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East; History & Archaeology; South Asia
• Soggetto geografico: India, South History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dialogue and history
• ISBN: 0-520-91432-5; 0-585-33993-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495969303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II