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100			_aMajeed, Javed
245			_aColonialism and knowledge in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India _c/ Javed Majeed
260			_aNew York, _b: Routledge _c2019
300			_avii, 266p. _c24cm.
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505			_aAcknowledgements. 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
520			_aThis 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
650			_aSocial Sciences
650			_a Culture and institutions
650			_aLanguage surveys -- India.
650			_aSocial Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
650			_aSocial Science -- Popular Culture.
650			_aLanguage surveys.
700			_aMajeed, Javed
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