TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majeed, Javed
AU  - Majeed, Javed
TI  - Colonialism and knowledge in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India
SN  - 9780367183226
U1  - 306.4409 MAJ 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York, 
PB  - : Routledge
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Culture and institutions
KW  - Language surveys -- India
KW  - Social Science  -- Anthropology -- Cultural
KW  - Social Science -- Popular Culture
KW  - Language surveys
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -