The Madras School of Orientalism : Producing Knowledge in Colonial South India

This book explores new ideas on India's history and culture emanating from the Madras School of Orientalism in the early nineteenth century on language, history, religion and law, the Indian intellectuals. Though modelled on the Calcutta Asiatic Society, the Madras Orientalists formed a distinct school of thought and methods of analysis, claiming that Calcutta Orientalists did not understand the peculiarities of South India