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Colonialism and Knowledge in Griersons Linguistic Survey of India

Author :  Javed Majeed

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Country
India
Publisher
Routledge,London / Manohar, New Delhi
ISBN 9780367183226
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info vii;266p.; 23 cm. Bibliography Includes Index.
Product Weight 450 gms.
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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.

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