01653nam a22002777a 4500 20220622105052.0 220622b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780367183226 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :117911 :10/06/2022 306.4409 MAJ Majeed, Javed Colonialism and knowledge in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India / Javed Majeed New York, : Routledge 2019 vii, 266p. 24cm. 995 Acknowledgements. Note on Transliteration. Introduction: The Survey's Inception 1 Colonial Categories of Thought 2 The Colonial State and the Survey 3 Illness, Eyesight and Crossing Borders 4 Scripts and Spectacles 5 White Noise and Seances: The 'Gramophone or Phonetic Survey' 6 Archival Self-Reflexivity 7 Uncertain Knowledge in the Survey 8 Names and Authorship. Conclusion: The Survey as a Colonial Project. Bibliography. Index This book is the first detailed examination of Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions between European orientalists and colonized Indians in British India Social Sciences Culture and institutions Language surveys -- India. Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Social Science -- Popular Culture. Language surveys. Majeed, Javed BOOK 59415 59415 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2022-06-22 Internatio 995.00 0 306.4409 MAJ 28773 2022-06-22 00:00:00 2022-06-22 BOOK