Book review
The Madras School of Orientalism: Producing knowledge in colonial South India. Edited by Thomas R. Trautmann.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. ix + 334 pp. . ISBN 978-0-19-806314-810 0-19-806314-8 Rs 875 $49.95

Reviewed by R. E. Asher
University of Edinburgh
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