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PART I: PRODUCING COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE * What's in a (Proper) Name? Particulars, Individuals and Authorship in the Linguistic Survey of India and Colonial Scholarship - Javed Majeed * The Floating Lexicon: Hobson-Jobson and the OED - Kate Teltscher * Missions and Museums: Hindu Gods and Other 'Abominations,' 1820-1860 - Geoffrey Oddie * Antiquarian Knowledge and Preservation of Indian Monuments at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century - Ann Julie Etter * PART II: HISTORICAL PLACES, HISTORICAL PASTS * Landscapes of the Past: Rajatarangini and Historical Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir - Chitralekha Zutshi * Jaunpur, Ruination, and Conservation during the Colonial Era - Michael Dodson * The Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Asar us-?anadid - David Lelyveld * PART III: PEDAGOGY AND TRANSFORMATION * Promoting Scientism: Institutions for Gathering and Disseminating Knowledge in British Bihar - Peter Gottschalk * Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education in Colonial India - Avril Powell * Teaching Emotions. Victorian Values and Sharafat in Nineteenth-century Delhi - Margrit Pernau

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"This is a very timely collection. The issue of colonial knowledge has been at the forefront of the study of South Asia for more than a decade. However, the paradigms originally informing it have become increasingly frayed, and the debates surrounding it ever more tired. This book offers to re-invigorate the issues and to take inquiries in more profitable directions." - David Washbrook, Fellow, History, Trinity College, Cambridge