Colonialism, Philology and Musical Ethnography in  Nineteenth-Century India: The caseof S. W. Fallon.

G. Farrell; N. Sorrell

doi:10.1093/ml/gcl085

Colonialism, Philology and Musical Ethnography in Nineteenth-Century India: The caseof S. W. Fallon.

G. Farrell, N. Sorrell

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Abstract

S. W. Fallon (1817–80), best known as a compiler of Hindustani dictionaries, submitted a detailed proposal to the Government of Bengal in 1873 for an extensive collection of Indian folksongs, of which he provided a classification. Although the outcome of the proposal is uncertain, his expressed aims alone are remarkable, in their relationship to the colonial enterprise and, more especially, for the ways in which they anticipate major concerns of ethnomusicology right up to the present.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	107-120
Number of pages	13
Journal	Music & Letters
Volume	88
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcl085
Publication status	Published - Feb 2007

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