Dialogue and history (Record no. 68865)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780520084056
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.8 IRS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Irschick, Eugene F.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Dialogue and history
Remainder of title : constructing South India, 1795-1895.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Eugene F. Irschick.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Berkeley
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of California Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1994.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 261p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.<br/><br/>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.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element South India
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Eugene F. Irschick
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Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 04/06/2026 Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 0.00   954.8 IRS G8293 04/06/2026 04/06/2026 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar Collection
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