UID:
almahu_9949880624302882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781315104058
,
1315104059
,
1351596950
,
9781351596954
,
9781351596930
,
1351596934
,
9781138237056
,
1138237051
Content:
"This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to re-think entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. The volume re-evaluates central, long-standing debates about the historical impact of the British Raj by deviating from hegemonic and top-down civilizational perspectives. It focuses on interactions, relations and underlying meanings of the colonial experience. The narratives of memory, identity, and the legacy of the colonial encounter are woven together in a diverse range of essays on subjects such as colonial and nationalist memorials; British, Eurasian, Dalit and Adivasi identities; regional political configurations; and state initiatives and patterns of control. By drawing on empirically rich, regional and chronological historical studies, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers of history, political science, colonial studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies."--Provided by publisher.
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Memory and identity -- I Colonial memory -- 1 Memory, place and British memorials in early Calcutta: transcript of a lecture by Peter Robb -- II Colonial identities -- 2 On the political history of Britishness in India: Lord Cornwallis and the early demise of Creole India -- 3 Religion and race: Eurasians in colonial India -- III Textual representations of memory and identity -- 4 Texts of liminality: reading identity in Dalit autobiographies from Bengal -- 5 Paradoxes of victimhood: Dalit women's bodies as polluted and suffering in colonial North India -- IV Sites of memory and identity formation -- 6 Sites of memory and structures of power in North India: Anandamath and Hanumangarhi -- 7 Dispossessing memory: Adivasi oral histories from the margins of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, Central India -- Part 2 Colonial encounters -- I Encounters with regional governance -- 8 Heroinism and its weapons: women power brokers in early modern Bhopal -- 9 Changing horses: the administration of Sikkim, 1888-1918 -- II Encounters with surveillance and resistance -- 10 Lost in transit? Railway crimes and the regime of control in colonial India -- 11 From London to Calcutta: the 'Bolshevik' outsider and imperial surveillance, 1917-1921 -- III Encounters and 'improvement' -- 12 Competition or collaboration? Importers of salt, the East India Company, and the salt market in Eastern India, c. 1780-1836 -- 13 Challenging the 3Rs: kindergarten experiments in colonial Madras -- 14 Scientific knowledge and practices of green manuring in Bengal Presidency, 1905-1925 -- Appendix: Major publications and supervised theses by Peter Robb -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781315104058
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781351596954
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
History
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315104058
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