Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India

Essays in Honour of Peter Robb
Herausgeber: Chakrabarti, Upal; Rashkow, Ezra; Ghosh, Sanjukta

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Produktbeschreibung

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 rethink entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. This volume reevaluates 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780367277888
• ISBN-10: 0367277883
• Artikelnr.: 56493544

Autorenporträt

Ezra Rashkow is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Montclair State University, USA. Sanjukta Ghosh is Research Associate at the South Asia Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. Upal Chakrabarti is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. List of Contributors. Foreword by Clive Dewey.
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
These by Peter Robb. Index