UID:
almafu_9960119974202883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 337 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-37714-4
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9786613377142
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0-85728-830-X
Series Statement:
Anthem South Asian Studies
Content:
This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: the relevance and complexity of civilizing missions c. 1800-2010 /
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Conjecturing rudeness: James Mill's utilitarian philosophy of history and the British civilizing mission /
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Art, artefacts and architecture: Lord Curzon, the Delhi Arts Exhibition of 1902-03 and the improvement of India's aesthetics /
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Incorportaion and differentiation: popular education and the imperial civilizing mission in early nineteenth century India /
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Reclaiming savages in 'darkest England' and 'darkest India': the Salvation Army as transnational agent of the civilizing mission /
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Mediating modernity: colonial state, Indian nationalism and the renegotiation of the 'civilizing mission' in the Indian child marriage debate of 1927-1932 /
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'Civilizing sisters': writings on how to save women, men, society and the nation in late colonial India /
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From 'social reform' to 'social service': Indian civic activism and the civilizing mission in colonial Bombay c. 1900-20 /
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Female infanticide and the civilizing mission in postcolonial India: a case study from Tamil Nadu c. 1980-2006 /
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Philanthropy and civilizing missions in India c. 1820-1960: states, NGOs and development /
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Afterward: improvement, progress and development /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84331-864-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780857288301/type/BOOK
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