Pramod K Nayar

Indian People and Society

From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, the Imperial Archive, Volume 2

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Produktbeschreibung

India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of "discovery" and exploration - fauna and flora, geography, climate - the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes - including the "Mutiny" of 1857-58 - and the "civilisational mission". Volume 2 Indian People and Society includes English studies of Indian languages, people and communities, and the social order. The landscape provided, understandably, endless prospects of the survey and the map. But the British were also keen on documenting the people. In the studies generated for 400 years, the British documented castes, religions, education, economies, professions, cultural practices, states of health and sickness, and other domains. With projects like the Census and the People of India, the land's inhabitants were classified and, eventually, also typecast and contributed to the colonial discourse about the native/colonised.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9789354356674
• ISBN-10: 9354356672
• Artikelnr.: 63371323

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar, FEA, FRHistS, teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2021), E coprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture (2019), Brand Postcolonial:'Third World' Texts and the Global (2018), Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity and the Biopolitical Uncanny (2017), Human Rights and Literature: Writing Right (2016) and the edited collection Indian Travel Writing 1830-1947 (2016). His essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, South Asian Review, South Asia, Narrative, Celebrity Studies, Asiatic, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Prose Studies, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Biography, Image and Text and Postcolonial Text, among others. Nayar also holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
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