Table Of ContentPALGRAVE STUDIES IN CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
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Indian Mobilities in the West, 1900–1947: Gender, Performance,
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Recovering Bishop Berkeley: Virtue and Society in the Anglo-Irish Context
By Scott Breuninger
The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and
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By Mark Gamsa
Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain
By Lynn Zastoupil
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By Jack Harrington
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The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context,
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By Julia Berest
The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era: Reforming American Verse
and Values
By Lisa Szefel
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
By Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali, eds.
Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
(forthcoming)
By Thomas Ahnert and Susan Manning, eds.
Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
(forthcoming)
By Jessica Riskin and Mario Biagioli, eds.
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Knowledge Production,
Pedagogy, and Institutions
in Colonial India
Edited by
Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali
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KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, PEDAGOGY, AND INSTITUTIONS IN COLONIAL INDIA
Copyright © Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali, 2011.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India /
edited by Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali.
p. cm. — (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)
ISBN 978–0–230–11337–4 (hardback)
1. Learning and scholarship—India—History—19th century.
2. Learning and scholarship—India—History—20th century. 3. India—
Intellectual life—19th century. 4. India—Intellectual life—20th century.
5. India—History—British occupation, 1765–1947. 6. India—Colonial
influence. I. Sengupta, Indra, 1962–, editor of compilation. II. Ali, Daud,
1964–, editor of compilation. III. Majeed, Javed, 1961– What’s in a
(proper) name?
DS428.K65 2011
001.20954(cid:1)09034—dc22 2010045449
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.
Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.
First edition: May 2011
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Printed in the United States of America.
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For
Avril Powell
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali
Part I Producing Colonial Knowledge
1 What’s in a (Proper) Name? Particulars, Individuals,
and Authorship in the Linguistic Survey of India and
Colonial Scholarship 19
Javed Majeed
2 The Floating Lexicon: Hobson-Jobson and the OED 41
Kate Teltscher
3 Missions and Museums: Hindu Gods and Other
“Abominations,” 1820–1860 59
Geoffrey Oddie
4 Antiquarian Knowledge and Preservation of Indian
Monuments at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century 75
Anne-Julie Etter
Part II Historical Places, Historical Pasts
5 Landscapes of the Past: Rajatarangini and Historical
Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth-Century
Kashmir 99
Chitralekha Zutshi
6 Jaunpur, Ruination, and Conservation during the
Colonial Era 123
Michael S. Dodson
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viii Contents
7 T he Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s
A¯ˍsa¯r us-.sana¯d¯ıd 147
David Lelyveld
Part III Pedagogy and Transformation
8 Promoting Scientism: Institutions for Gathering and
Disseminating Knowledge in British Bihar 171
Peter Gottschalk
9 Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education
in Colonial India 199
Avril A. Powell
10 Teaching Emotions: The Encounter between
Victorian Values and Indo-Persian Concepts of
Civility in Nineteenth-Century Delhi 227
Margrit Pernau
Index 249
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Figures
Cover: Pupils of the Arabic and Persian Indigenous School at the Jami
Masjid, Lahore, photographic print, c. 1870, photographer unknown.
With permission of the British Library.
3.1 D emon worship in South Travancore. From Missionary
Magazine, no. 17 (October 1837): 261. Image supplied
by author. 65
3.2 Procession of Juggernaut at the Grand Hindoo
Festival of the Rutt Jattra. From Missionary Papers
for the Use of the Weekly and Monthly Contributors
to the Church Missionary Society, no. 7 (1817).
Image supplied by author. 67
3.3 Wooden model of Juggernaut’s vehicle in the London
Missionary Society Museum, from a photograph
which appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine
21 (1899). Image supplied by author. 69
3.4 C rown used in a swinging festival, worn by Siva’s
votaries. From H. C. Gordon, Lesser known
museums. The London Missionary Society Museum,
English Illustrated Magazine 21 (1899). Image
supplied by author. 70
3.5 “ Tortures inflicted at a Hindoo Festival.” Missionary
Chronicle (January 1839). Image supplied by author. 70
7.1 Qutb Minar with inscriptions. Artist Faiz `Ali Khan,
A¯ˍsa¯r us-.sana¯d¯ıd, 1847. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library. 158
7.2 Area Two of the Quwwat ul-Islam with Iron Pillar.
Artist Faiz `Ali Khan, A¯ˍsa¯r us-.sana¯d¯ıd, 1847. Image
supplied by author. 159
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