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Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-08-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. 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 colonised Indians in British India. Its authority lay more in its stress on the provisional nature of its findings, an emphasis on the approximate nature of its results, and a strong sense of its own shortcomings and inadequacies, rather than in any expression of mastery over India’s languages. The book argues that the Survey brings to light a different k...

Punch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 810

Punch

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1899
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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G. A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

G. A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Grierson on Documentary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

Grierson on Documentary

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Report of the British and Foreign School Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1054

Report of the British and Foreign School Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Scotland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Scotland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1874
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Calcutta Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Calcutta Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1882
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Visitation of Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Visitation of Ireland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Court of Exchequer and House of Lords
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1524
A history of the town of Belfast
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1060

A history of the town of Belfast

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