Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India
The interdisciplinary approaches to scholarly writings have become quite common today in any discipline. However, visualization of the components not as independent areas of knowledge but as parts of a unified whole are essential while doing this. All these concerns though extremely important, may b...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Sarat Centenary College
2018-07-01
|
| Series: | PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pS3.iiSoumya.pdf |
| _version_ | 1828366315914526720 |
|---|---|
| author | Soumya Goswamy |
| author_facet | Soumya Goswamy |
| author_sort | Soumya Goswamy |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The interdisciplinary approaches to scholarly writings have become quite common today in any discipline. However, visualization of the components not as independent areas of knowledge but as parts of a unified whole are essential while doing this. All these concerns though extremely important, may become irrelevant in comparison to a much bigger and broader consideration that underlies all scholarly endeavours. It is the question of the intention and purpose behind any research activity. Why is a project undertaken and who are the stakeholders in it? In order to find an answer we need look into the circumstances and contexts that contribute to such understandings and also make use of hindsight for tracing and evaluating such development. This paper proposes to use this advantage of hindsight to visit and understand how this very notion of progress was being perceived by the British in India and what efforts were being taken to comprehend the alien native society through their attempts at writing the history of the conquered land. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-14T05:43:32Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-f3f46167b38f44b781e4395908d90221 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2456-7507 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-14T05:43:32Z |
| publishDate | 2018-07-01 |
| publisher | Sarat Centenary College |
| record_format | Article |
| series | PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies |
| spelling | doaj.art-f3f46167b38f44b781e4395908d902212022-12-22T02:09:22ZengSarat Centenary CollegePostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies2456-75072018-07-013ii17017710.5281/zenodo.1318971Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial IndiaSoumya Goswamy0Chandernagore CollegeThe interdisciplinary approaches to scholarly writings have become quite common today in any discipline. However, visualization of the components not as independent areas of knowledge but as parts of a unified whole are essential while doing this. All these concerns though extremely important, may become irrelevant in comparison to a much bigger and broader consideration that underlies all scholarly endeavours. It is the question of the intention and purpose behind any research activity. Why is a project undertaken and who are the stakeholders in it? In order to find an answer we need look into the circumstances and contexts that contribute to such understandings and also make use of hindsight for tracing and evaluating such development. This paper proposes to use this advantage of hindsight to visit and understand how this very notion of progress was being perceived by the British in India and what efforts were being taken to comprehend the alien native society through their attempts at writing the history of the conquered land.http://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pS3.iiSoumya.pdfhistoryreconstructioncolonialismimperialismsocietyculturecivilisation |
| spellingShingle | Soumya Goswamy Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies history reconstruction colonialism imperialism society culture civilisation |
| title | Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India |
| title_full | Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India |
| title_fullStr | Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India |
| title_short | Reconstruction of a Nation: British Attempts at Cross-Cutting Researches in Colonial India |
| title_sort | reconstruction of a nation british attempts at cross cutting researches in colonial india |
| topic | history reconstruction colonialism imperialism society culture civilisation |
| url | http://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pS3.iiSoumya.pdf |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT soumyagoswamy reconstructionofanationbritishattemptsatcrosscuttingresearchesincolonialindia |