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The Schools Of Serfoji Ii Of Tanjore: Education And Princely Modernity In Early Nineteenth-century India / Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- Pandits At Work: The Modern Sastric Imaginary In Early Colonial Bengal / Brian A. Hatcher -- Knowledge In Context: Raja Shivaprasad As Hybrid Intellectual And People's Educator / Ulrike Stark -- Modernity's Script And A Tom Thumb Performance: English Linguistic Modernity And Persian/urdu Lexicography In Nineteenth-century India / Javed Majeed -- The Trans-colonial Opportunities Of Bible Translation: Iranian Language Workers Between The Russian And British Empires / Nile Green -- Indology As Authoritative Knowledge: Jain Debates About Icons And History In Colonial India / John E. Cort -- A Conceptual History Of The Social: Some Reflections Out Of Colonial Bengal / Rochona Majumdar -- Three Poets In Search Of History: Calcutta, 1752-1859 / Rosinka Chaudhuri -- A Well-travelled Theory: Mughals, Maine And Modernity In The Historical Fiction Of Romesh Chunder / Dutt Alex Padamsee -- Afterword: Bombay's Intertwined Modernities, 1780-1880 / C.a. Bayly. Edited By Michael S. Dodson And Brian A. Hatcher. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.