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Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895

Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895

Irschick, Eugene F.

Paperback

General World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0520084055
ISBN13: 9780520084056
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 5 1994
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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.

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