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Problems, Controversies, and Compromise: A Study on the Historiography of British India during the East India Company Era

Howard, Andrew T.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-4129
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492789513835814

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, History (Arts and Sciences).
This essay explores the historiography of the British Indian Empire, specifically during the East India Company Era. Discussing issues such as Mughal decline and regional formalism, East India Company `sub-imperialism’ and the nature of the Company itself, and knowledge formation and `colonial discourse theory,’ this essay interrogates the scholarship of the period from the British imperialists and orientalists themselves through to scholarship of the present day. One of the most contentious issues debated in the scholarship is whether historical change occurs from the top-down or the bottom-up. Both arguments are considered along with an examination of how the original intention of the Subaltern School to explore history from the bottom-up was hijacked by politicized, postmodern scholarship that sought to erase Indian agency from the historical record. The essay concludes by staking out new ground for future scholarship and providing models and frameworks for how to do so.
John Brobst (Advisor)
Alec Holcombe (Committee Member)
Assan Sarr (Committee Member)
113 p.
European History; History; South Asian Studies; World History
British India; East India Company; Historiography; Colonialism; Imperialism; Colonial Discourse Theory; South Asian History; European History; History; Intellectual History

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  • Howard, A. T. (2017). Problems, Controversies, and Compromise: A Study on the Historiography of British India during the East India Company Era [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492789513835814

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Howard, Andrew. Problems, Controversies, and Compromise: A Study on the Historiography of British India during the East India Company Era. 2017. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492789513835814.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Howard, Andrew. "Problems, Controversies, and Compromise: A Study on the Historiography of British India during the East India Company Era." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492789513835814

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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