Velcheru Narayana Rao: 2 books
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed...
by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Everyone has a past: the question is what one does with it. If earlier scholars are to be believed, South Indian society before colonial rule showed an indifference to its past - or approached the past through myth, legend and phantasmagoria. This book sets out not merely to disprove this idea, but...