Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia

Herausgeber: Fischer-Tiné, Harald; Framke, Maria

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 943g
• ISBN-13: 9781032052489
• ISBN-10: 1032052481
• Artikelnr.: 69918778

Autorenporträt

Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Modern Global History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich) Switzerland. He has published extensively on South Asian colonial history and the history of the British Empire. His research interests include global and transnational history, the history of knowledge and the social and cultural history of colonial South Asia. His many publications include Low and Licentious Europeans: Race, Class, and 'White Subalternity' in Colonial India (2009) and Shyamji Krishnavarma: Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism (2014). Maria Framke is a historian at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, Germany. She works on the history of imperial, international and nationalist politics, humanitarianism, and ideologies in the twentieth century. She is also the author of Engagement with Italian Fascism and German National Socialism in India, 1922-1939 (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Overarching Themes and Debates 1. Caste in British India: between
continuity and colonial construction 2. The Political Economy of
Colonialism in India 3. State formation in India: from the Company state to
the late colonial state 4. Nationalisms and their discontents in Colonial
India 5. Reordering religion in colonial South Asia 6. Reconstituting
Masculinities/Femininities: Modern Experiences 7. Contested history: the
rise of communalism and the Partition of British India 8. The Raj's uncanny
other: Indirect rule and the princely states Part II The World of Economy
and Labour 9. The Emergence of A 'Modern' Urban-Industrial Workforce in
India, 1860-1914 10. Military labour markets in colonial India from the
Company state to World War II 11. Merchants, Moneylenders, Karkhanedars,
and the Emergence of the Informal Sector 12. Indian big business under the
Company and the Raj 13. Revenue extraction in colonial South Asia Part III
Creating and keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law and Education 14.
The Science and Medicine of Colonial India 15. Race in colonial South Asia:
Science and the law 16. 'A Race Apart'? - The European Community in
Colonial India 17. Christian missionary agendas in colonial India 18. Penal
law, penology and prisons in colonial India 19. Terrorism and
counter-terrorism in colonial India 20. Schooling the Subcontinent: State,
Space and Society, and the Dynamics of Education in Colonial South Asia
Part IV Environment and Space 21. Of Lives and Landscapes: The
Environmental History of Colonial South Asia 22. Questioning
'railway-centrism': Infrastructural governance and cultures of colonial
transport system, 1760s-1900s 23. Colonial Port Cities and the
Infrastructure of Empire: Tracing the Geography of Alcohol in British
Colonial India 24. Site of deficiency and site of hope: the village in
colonial South Asia 25. Imperial Sanctuaries: The Hill Stations of Colonial
South Asia 26. Agrarian history of colonial South Asia Part V Culture,
Media and the Everyday 27. Physical Culture and the Body in Colonial India,
c. 1800-1947 28. Before Bollywood: Bombay Cinema and the Rise of the Film
Industry in Late Colonial India 29. Rhythms of the Raj: Music in Colonial
South Asia 31. Consumer Practices and 'Consumerism' in Late Colonial India
31. Food and Intoxicants in British India 32. Languages, Literatures and
the Public Sphere 33. Emotions, senses and perception of the self Part VI
Colonial South Asia in the World 34. Women, Migration and Travel from
Colonial India 35. Debates on Citizenship in Colonial South Asia and Global
Political Thought, c. 1880-1950 36. South Asia and South Asians in the
world-wide web of anticolonial solidarity 37. Disruptive entanglements:
South Asia and South Asians in the World Wars 38.Indian humanitarianism
under colonial rule: Imperial loyalty, national self-assertion and
anticolonial emancipation 39. Famine Relief in Colonial South Asia,
1858-1947: Regional and Global Perspectives