Sukanya Banerjee

Becoming Imperial Citizens

Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines colonial citizenship in late 19th and early 20th century India through the study of four public figures who helped formulate and challenge notions of national belonging in the midst of empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345909
• ISBN-10: 0822345900
• Artikelnr.: 29930875

Autorenporträt

Sukanya Banerjee

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