Sukanya Banerjee

Becoming Imperial Citizens

Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

"What is most valuable about "Becoming Imperial Citizens" is Sukanya Banerjee's attention to formulations of citizenship other than that of the normative, rights-bearing citizen of the nation-state. Banerjee examines how differently positioned subjects of the colonial state conceived of themselves as citizens of the British Empire, and the kinds of belonging they enacted despite being denied the benefits of official, full citizenship. She also makes the valuable and vital linkages between imperial citizenship and diasporic belongings, thereby bringing colonial and postcolonial histories into conversations with questions of globalization."--Inderpal Grewal, author of" Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346081
• ISBN-10: 0822346087
• Artikelnr.: 28035256

Autorenporträt

Sukanya Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Imperial Citizenship 1
1. Of the Indian Economy and the English Polls 36
2. South Africa, Indentured Labor, and the Question of Credit 75
3. The Professional Citizen in/and the Zenana 116
4. Bureaucratic Modernity, the Indian Civil Service, and Grammars of
Nationalism 150
Afterword 191
Notes 197
Bibliography 235
Index 265