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TRANS-COLONIAL MODERNITIES IN SOUTH ASIA Edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulationofmodernityincolonialSouthAsia,thisbookbuildsuponandextends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewingthefashionablebinariesofresistanceandcollaboration,thecontributors seek to reconceptualize modernity as a local and transitive practice of cultural conjunction.WhetherthroughaclosereadingofAnglo-Indianpoetry,Urdurhym- ingdictionaries,PersianBibletranslations,Jaincourtrecords,orBengalipolemical literature, the contributors interpret South Asian modernity as emerging from localized, partial, and continuously negotiated efforts among a variety of South AsianandEuropeanelites. Surveying a range of individuals, regions, and movements, this book supports reflection on the ways traditional scholars and other colonial agents actively appropriatedandre-purposedelementsofEuropeanknowledge,colonialadminis- tration, ruling ideology, and material technologies. The book conjures a trans- colonial and transnational context in which ideas of history, religion, language, science, and nation are defined across disparate religious, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries. Providing new insights into the negotiation and reinterpretation of Westernknowledgeandmodernity,thisbookisofinteresttostudentsandscholars ofSouthAsianStudies,aswellasofintellectualandcolonialhistory,comparative literature,andreligiousstudies. Michael S. Dodson is Associate Professor of South Asian History at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is a historian of British imperialism in South Asia,focusingparticularlyupontheintellectual,cultural,andurbanhistoryofthe nineteenthcenturyinnorthIndia. BrianA.HatcherisProfessorandPackardChairofTheologyatTuftsUniversity, USA. His research addresses such issues as the transformation of intellectual practiceamongSanskritpanditsincolonialBengal,theinterrogationofmodernity under the conditions of colonialism, and the expression of religious change in emergentHindumovements. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 1. ThePoliceinOccupationJapan 12. Japan’sPostwarEconomicRecovery Control,corruptionandresistanceto andAnglo-JapaneseRelations, reform 1948–1962 ChristopherAldous NorikoYokoi 2. ChineseWorkers 13. JapaneseArmyStragglersand Anewhistory MemoriesoftheWarinJapan, JackieSheehan 1950–1975 BeatriceTrefalt 3. TheAftermathofPartitioninSouth Asia 14. EndingtheVietnamWar TaiYongTanandGyaneshKudaisya TheVietnamesecommunists’perspective 4. TheAustralia–JapanPolitical AngChengGuan Alignment 15. TheDevelopmentoftheJapanese 1952tothepresent NursingProfession AlanRix AdoptingandadaptingWestern 5. JapanandSingaporeintheWorld influences AyaTakahashi Economy Japan’seconomicadvanceinto 16. Women’sSuffrageinAsia Singapore,1870–1965 Gendernationalismanddemocracy ShimizuHiroshiandHirakawaHitoshi LouiseEdwardsandMinaRoces 6. TheTriadsasBusiness 17. TheAnglo-JapaneseAlliance, YiuKongChu 1902–1922 PhillipsPaysonO’Brien 7. ContemporaryTaiwaneseCultural Nationalism 18. TheUnitedStatesandCambodia, A-chinHsiau 1870–1969 Fromcuriositytoconfrontation 8. ReligionandNationalisminIndia KentonClymer ThecaseofthePunjab HarnikDeol 19. CapitalistRestructuringandthe PacificRim 9. JapaneseIndustrialisation RaviArvindPalat Historicalandculturalperspectives IanInkster 20. TheUnitedStatesandCambodia, 1969–2000 10. WarandNationalisminChina 1925–1945 Atroubledrelationship KentonClymer HansJ.vandeVen 21. BritishBusinessinPost-Colonial 11. HongKonginTransition Onecountry,twosystems Malaysia,1957–1970 EditedbyRobertAsh,PeterFerdinand, ‘Neo-colonialism’or‘disengagement’? BrianHookandRobinPorter NicholasJ.White 22. TheRiseandDeclineofThai 36. Britain’sImperialCornerstonein Absolutism China KulladaKesboonchooMead TheChinesemaritimecustomsservice, 23. RussianViewsofJapan,1792–1913 1854–1949 DonnaBrunero Ananthologyoftravelwriting DavidN.Wells 37. ColonialCambodia’s‘Bad Frenchmen’ 24. TheInternmentofWesternCivilians undertheJapanese,1941–1945 TheriseofFrenchruleandthelifeof Apatchworkofinternment ThomasCaraman,1840–1887 GregorMuller BerniceArcher 25. TheBritishEmpireandTibet 38. Japanese-AmericanCivilianPrisoner 1900–1922 ExchangesandDetentionCamps, 1941–45 WendyPalace BruceElleman 26. NationalisminSoutheastAsia 39. RegionalisminSoutheastAsia Ifthepeoplearewithus NicholasTarling NicholasTarling 27. Women,WorkandtheJapanese 40. ChangingVisionsofEastAsia, 1943–1993 EconomicMiracle Transformationsandcontinuities Thecaseofthecottontextileindustry, 1945–1975 R.B.Smith(EditedbyChadJ.Mitcham) HelenMacnaughtan 41. ChristianHereticsinLateImperial China 28. AColonialEconomyinCrisis Burma’sricecultivatorsandtheworld Christianinculturationandstatecontrol, depressionofthe1930s 1720–1850 IanBrown LarsP.Laamann 29. AVietnameseRoyalExileinJapan 42. Beijing–AConciseHistory PrinceCuongDe(1882–1951) StephenG.Haw TranMy-Van 43. TheImpactoftheRusso-Japanese 30. CorruptionandGoodGovernance War inAsia EditedbyRotemKowner NicholasTarling 44. Business–GovernmentRelationsin 31. US–ChinaColdWarCollaboration, PrewarJapan 1971–1989 PetervonStaden S.MahmudAli 45. India’sPrincelyStates 32. RuralEconomicDevelopmentin People,princesandcolonialism Japan EditedbyWaltraudErnstand Fromthenineteenthcenturytothe BiswamoyPati PacificWar 46. RethinkingGandhiandNonviolent PenelopeFrancks Relationality 33. ColonialArmiesinSoutheastAsia Globalperspectives EditedbyKarlHackandTobiasRettig EditedbyDebjaniGangulyandJohn Docker 34. IntraAsianTradeandtheWorld Market 47. TheQuestforGentilityinChina AJHLathamandHeitaKawakatsu Negotiationsbeyondgenderandclass EditedbyDariaBergandChloëStarr 35. Japanese–GermanRelations, 1895–1945 48. ForgottenCaptivesinJapanese War,diplomacyandpublicopinion OccupiedAsia EditedbyChristianW.Spangand EditedbyKevinBlackburnandKarl Rolf-HaraldWippich Hack 49. JapaneseDiplomacyinthe1950s 62. TheInternationalHistoryofEast Fromisolationtointegration Asia,1900–1968 EditedbyIokibeMakoto,Caroline Trade,ideologyandthequestfororder Rose,TomaruJunkoandJohnWeste EditedbyAntonyBest 50. TheLimitsofBritishColonial 63. JournalismandPoliticsinIndonesia ControlinSouthAsia AcriticalbiographyofMochtarLubis SpacesofdisorderintheIndianOcean (1922–2004)aseditorandauthor region DavidT.Hill EditedbyAshwiniTambeandHarald 64. AtrocityandAmericanMilitary Fischer-Tiné JusticeinSoutheastAsia 51. OnTheBordersofStatePower Trialbyarmy FrontiersinthegreaterMekong LouiseBarnett sub-region 65. TheJapaneseOccupationofBorneo, EditedbyMartinGainsborough 1941–1945 52. Pre-CommunistIndochina OoiKeatGin R.B.SmitheditedbyBerylWilliams 66. NationalPastsinEuropeandEast 53. CommunistIndochina Asia R.B.SmitheditedbyBerylWilliams P.W.Preston 54. PortCitiesinAsiaandEurope 67. ModernChina’sEthnicFrontiers EditedbyArndtGrafandChuaBeng Ajourneytothewest Huat Hsiao-tingLin 55. MoscowandtheEmergenceof 68. NewPerspectivesontheHistoryand CommunistPowerinChina, HistoriographyofSoutheastAsia 1925–1930 Continuingexplorations TheNanchangRisingandthebirthof MichaelAung-ThwinandKenneth theRedArmy R.Hall BruceA.Elleman 69. FoodCultureinColonialAsia 56. Colonialism,ViolenceandMuslimsin Atasteofempire SoutheastAsia CeciliaLeong-Salobir TheMariaHertoghcontroversyandits 70. China’sPoliticalEconomyinModern aftermath Times SyedMuhdKhairudinAljunied Changesandeconomicconsequences, 57. JapaneseandHongKongFilm 1800–2000 Industries KentDeng UnderstandingtheoriginsofEastAsian 71. Science,PublicHealthandtheState filmnetworks inModernAsia KinniaShuk-ting EditedbyLipingBu,DarwinStapleton 58. ProvincialLifeandtheMilitaryin andKa-cheYip ImperialJapan 72. Russo-JapaneseRelations, Thephantomsamurai 1905–1917 StewartLone Fromenemiestoallies 59. SoutheastAsiaandtheVietnamWar PeterBerton AngChengGuan 73. ReformingPublicHealthinOccupied 60. SoutheastAsiaandtheGreatPowers Japan,1945–1952 NicholasTarling Alienprescriptions? 61. TheColdWarandNational ChristopherAldousandAkihitoSuzuki AssertioninSoutheastAsia 74. Trans-ColonialModernitiesinSouth Britain,theUnitedStatesandBurma, Asia 1948–1962 EditedbyMichaelS.DodsonandBrian MatthewFoley A.Hatcher Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia Edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher Firstpublished2012 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2012MichaelS.DodsonandBrianA.Hatcher Therightoftheeditorstobeidentifiedastheauthorsoftheeditorialmaterial,andofthe contributorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedbytheminaccordancewith sections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Trans-colonialmodernitiesinSouthAsia/editedbyMichaelS.DodsonandBrianA.Hatcher. p.cm.--(RoutledgestudiesinthemodernhistoryofAsia;74) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.India--Colonialinfluence.2.Nationalism--India--History.3.Nationalism--Philosophy--India. 4.Nationalcharacteristics,EastIndian.5.India--History--Britishoccupation,1765-1947. I.Dodson,MichaelS.,1968-II.Hatcher,BrianA.(BrianAllison) DS463.T6982011 954.03--dc23 2011030245 ISBN:978-0-415-78062-9(hbk) ISBN:978-0-203-13539-6(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byIntegraSoftwareServicesPvt.Ltd,Pondicherry,India Contents Preface ix Listofcontributors xi Introduction 1 MICHAELS.DODSONANDBRIANA.HATCHER PARTI Localagents,localmodernities 13 1 TheschoolsofSerfojiIIofTanjore:educationandprincely modernityinearlynineteenth-centuryIndia 15 INDIRAVISWANATHANPETERSON 2 Panditsatwork:themodernshastricimaginary inearlycolonialBengal 45 BRIANA.HATCHER 3 Knowledgeincontext:RajaShivaprasadashybrid intellectualandpeople’seducator 68 ULRIKESTARK PARTII Strategiesoftranslation 93 4 Modernity’sscriptandaTomThumbperformance: EnglishlinguisticmodernityandPersian/Urdulexicography innineteenth-centuryIndia 95 JAVEDMAJEED 5 Thetrans-colonialopportunitiesofBibletranslation:Iranian languageworkersbetweentheRussianandBritishEmpires 116 NILEGREEN viii Contents 6 Indologyasauthoritativeknowledge:Jaindebatesabouticons andhistoryincolonialIndia 137 JOHNE.CORT PARTIII Historyandmodernity 163 7 Aconceptualhistoryofthesocial:somereflections outofcolonialBengal 165 ROCHONAMAJUMDAR 8 Threepoetsinsearchofhistory:Calcutta,1752–1859 189 ROSINKACHAUDHURI 9 A“well-traveled”theory:Mughals,Maineandmodernity inthehistoricalfictionofRomeshChunderDutt 208 ALEXPADAMSEE Afterword:Bombay’s“intertwinedmodernities,”1780–1880 231 C.A.BAYLY Index 249 Preface Thisvolumehasitsoriginsinatwo-dayconferenceorganizedbyMichaelDodson at Indiana University Bloomington in October 2008. Originally entitled “Traditional Scholarship and Asian National Modernity,” the conference brought together scholars from around the world to discuss the intellectual projects of “traditional” Asian scholars in a variety of modern contexts, from Egypt and SyriatoIndiaandChina.Oneofthechiefconcernsbehindtheconferencewasto question standard historical treatments of modernization beyond the European world, and to eschew neat formulations regarding the arrival, articulation, or meaning of modernity within particular Asian contexts. We hoped to produce an occasionatthisconferenceforcriticalreflectiononhithertolittle-understoodareas of Asian intellectual life and localized expressions of modernity. In this respect, participants shared the desire to explore ways that learned elites went about negotiatingandreinterpretingnotonlytheirowntexts,traditions,andinstitutions, butalsoEurope’s“newknowledge.” Thehighqualityofthepapersoriginallypresentedattheconference,aswellas the engaging discussions they provoked—conversations that were at once cross- disciplinary and transregional—suggested that the conference might be the occa- sionforcreatinganeditedvolumededicatedtorethinkingthevariableexpression ofmodernityacrosstheAsiancontinent.Butassometimeshappens,thisoriginal planfacedsomeearlychallenges,andtheco-editorsofthecurrentvolumetookthe decisiontoreconceivetheprojectsomewhat,dedicatingitsolelytotheexamination of what we here call “trans-colonial” modernity in South Asia. Regrettably this meanthavingtoomitseveralexcellentessaysontopicsrelatedtotheMiddleEast andChina.Thiswasnotaneasydecisionandwewouldliketoexpressourdeep regretstoArifDirlik,JimGelvin,andOriSela,aswellastoreiterateourthanksfor their understanding in this regard. We would also like to thank the original participants at the 2008 conference in Bloomington whose contributions are not directlyrepresented here: Ashish Chadha,Marwa Elshakry,Michael Gasper, Adi Hastings,MatthiasLehmann,PaulLosensky,RebeccaManring,KlausMuehlhahn, RonSela,andRebeccaSpang,aswellasSandrineCatris,whoservedasgraduate studentassistantfortheconference.Wegratefullyacknowledgeherethegenerous financialsupportofIndianaUniversity’sOfficeoftheVice-PresidentforResearch, anditsNewFrontiersinArtsandHumanitiesgrantprogram,aswellasthesupport
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