The Imperial Archives

From Discovery to the Civilisational Mission: English Writings on India
Herausgeber: Nayar, Pramod K

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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, flora and fauna-was documented by British travellers, traders, administrators and 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-flora and fauna, geography, climate; the people of the subcontinent; English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent; the wars and skirmishes-including the 'Mutiny' of 1857-1858; and the 'civilisational mission'. Volume 1, 'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey, consists of documents that deal with England's discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent. Volume 2, Indian People and Society, includes English studies of Indian languages, people and communities, and the social order. Volume 3, Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure, shifts the focus to the English home and social life. Volume 4, Rebellions and Wars, is a collection of accounts of a very different British life in India: as prisoners, under siege and in conditions of war. Volume 5, The 'Civilisational Mission', documents England's social reform and other efforts at 'improving' the colonised. Volume 6, Thugs and Dacoits, documents how the practice of thugee was viewed by the British: as if it symbolised everything that was wrong with the social order in India. These six volumes are a treasure trove of original documents that throw light on the process of colonisation and its contexts, and provide a glimpse into the mind of the colonisers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 1754
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9789356408876
• ISBN-10: 9356408874
• Artikelnr.: 69977652

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar, FEA, FRHistS, teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1, 'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Thomas Stephens. 'Letter'. 1579. In The First Englishmen in India:
Letters and Narratives by Sundry Elizabethans written by Themselves, edited
by J. Courtney Locke. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1930.
2. Robert Barker. 'An Account of Some Thermometrical Observations, Made by
Sir Robert Barker, F. R. S. at Allahabad in the East Indies, in Lat. 25°
30' N. during the Year 1767'. Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775) 65
(1775).
3. James Rennell. 'An Account of the Ganges and Burrampooter Rivers',
communicated by Joseph Banks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society (1781).
4. William Jones. 'The Plants of India'. Asiatic Researches 2 (1807
[1787]).
5. William Chambers. 'Some account of the Sculptures and Ruins at
Mavalipuram'. Asiatic Researches 1 (1788).
6. John Forbes Royle. Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan
Mountains. London: WH Allen, 1839.
7. Henry Piddington. 'Fifth Memoir. Madras Hurricane of May 1841'. Journal
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11 (1842).
8. John Goldingham. 'The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India'. The
Calcutta Review 38 (1863).
9. Alexander Cunningham. The Stupa of Bharhut. London: WH Allen, 1879.
10. W.W. Hunter. 'Chilka Lake'. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. London:
Trübner and Co., 1885. Vol. III. 415-417.
11. C.S. Middlemiss. "Preliminary Account of the Kangra Earthquake of 4
April 1905". Records of the Geological Survey of India. London: Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trübner & Co., 1905. Vol. XXXII. 258-271.
About the Editor
Volume 2, Indian People and Society
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Thomas Roe. The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India, 1615-19, as Narrated
in his Journal and Correspondence, edited by William Foster. London: Oxford
University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926.
2. John Fryer. [On fakirs] A New Account of East-India and Persia. London:
R.I. Chiswell, 1698.
3. Henry Colebrooke. 'On the Sanscrit and Prakrit Languages'. Asiatic
Researches 7 (1803).
4. John Borthwick Gilchrist. 'Preface'. The Strangers' East Indian Guide to
the Hindoostanee; or Grand Popular Language of India. London: W. Bulmer,
1808.
5. Fanny Parkes. [Account of a suttee] Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of
the Picturesque during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East. London: Pelham
Richardson, 1850. 2 vols.
6. John William Kaye. [Female Infanticide] Administration of the East India
Company. London: R. Bentley, 1853.
7. Talboys Wheeler. The history of the imperial assemblage at Delhi, held
on the 1st January, 1877, to celebrate the assumption of the title of
Empress of India by Her Majesty the Queen. Including historical sketches of
India and her princes past and present. London: Longmans, Green, Reader,
and Dyer, 1877.
8. W.H. Sleeman. 'Thugs and Poisoners'. Rambles and Recollections of an
Indian Official. Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1893.
9. W.H.R. Rivers. 'Introduction'. The Todas. London: Macmillan, 1906.
10. H.H. Risley and E.A. Gait. 'Introduction'. The Census of India, 1901.
Calcutta: Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, 1903.
11. Herbert Risley. 'Social Types'. The People of India. Calcutta: Thacker,
Spink & Co., 1908.
About the Editor
Volume 3, Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Thomas Williamson. Oriental Field Sports. London: W. Bulmer, 1808. 2
vols.
2. John Malcolm. 'Notes of Instructions to Assistants and Officers Acting
under the Orders of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, GCB'. In A Memoir of
Central India, edited by John Malcolm. London: Kingsbury, Parbury and
Allen, 1823. Vol. 2.
3. J. Frederick Pogson. Indian Gardening. Calcutta: Wyman, 1872.
4. Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner. The Complete Indian Housekeeper
and Cook. London: William Heineman, 1909.
5. G.F. Atkinson. Curry and Rice, on forty plates; or the ingredients of
social life at "our station" in India. London: W. Thacker, 1911.
6. Maud Diver. The Englishwoman in India. London: William Blackwood, 1909.
7. E.P. Stebbing. The Diary of a Sportsman Naturalist in India. London:
John Lane and the Bodley Head, 1920.
8. Edward John Buck. Simla Past and Present. Bombay: Times Press, 1925.
About the Editor
Volume 4, Rebellions and Wars
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. J.Z. Holwell. A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the
English Gentlemen and others who were suffocated in Fort-William, at
Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the night succeeding the 20th day of
June, 1756, in a letter to a friend. London: Printed for A. Millar in the
Strand, 1758.
2. James Bristow. A Narrative of the Sufferings of James Bristow belonging
to the Bengal Artillery during Ten Years Captivity with Hyder Ali and
Tippoo Saheb. London: John Murray, 1793.
3. 'Koregaon Battle'. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency 18, part 3.
Bombay: Government Central Press, 1885.
4. Julia Inglis. The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary. London: James R. Osgood,
McIlvine, 1895.
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Volume 5, The 'Civilisational Mission'
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. T.B. Macaulay. 'Minute on English Education, 2nd February 1835'. In
Selections from Educational Records Part I, 1781-1839, edited by H. Sharp.
Calcutta: Government Printing, 1920.
2. Claudius Buchanan. An Apology for Promoting Christianity in India.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
3. Alexander Duff. India, and India Missions. Edinburgh: J. Johnstone,
1839.
4. Priscilla Chapman. Hindoo Female Education. London: R.B. Seeley and W.
Burnside, 1839.
5. Irene Barnes. Between Life and Death: The Story of C.E.Z.M.S. Medical
Missions in India, China, and Ceylon. London: Marshall Brothers, 1901.
6. W.S. Caine. 'The Temperance Problem in India'. In Indian Social Reform,
edited by C. Yajnesvara Chintamani. Madras: Thompson and Co., 1901. 87-97.
7. John W.D. Megaw. 'The Public Health Activities of the Government of
India'. In Social Service in India: An Introduction to Some Social and
Economic Problems of the Indian People, edited by Edward Blunt. London: His
Majesty's Stationer's Office, 1938. 191-194.
8. C.F. Strickland. 'Voluntary Effort and Social Welfare.' In Social
Service in India: An Introduction to Some Social and Economic Problems of
the Indian People, edited by Edward Blunt. London: His Majesty's
Stationer's Office, 1938. 380-398.
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Volume 6, Thugs and Dacoits
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. J. Shakespeare. 'Observations Regarding Badheks and T'hegs.' Asiatic
Researches 13 (1820): 282-292.
2. [Doctor] Sherwood. 'Of the Murderers Called Phansigars' [1816]. Asiatic
Researches 13 (1820): 250-282.
3. W.H. Sleeman. Ramaseeana, or, A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used
by the Thugs. Calcutta: GH Huttmann, Military Orphan Press, 1836.
4. W.H. Sleeman. Thugs, or, Phansigars of India. Philadelphia: Carey &
Hart, 1839.
5. W.H. Sleeman. Report on the Depredations Committed by the Thug Gangs of
Upper and Central India. Calcutta: GH Huttmann, Military Orphan Press,
1840.
6. J.A.R. Stevenson. 'Some Account of the Phansigars, or Gang-Robbers and
of the Shudgarshids, or Tribes of Jugglers.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society 1 (1834): 280-283.
7. H.H. Spry. 'Some Accounts of the Gang Murderers of Central India,
Commonly Called Thugs; Accompanying the Skulls of Seven of Them.' The
Phrenological Journal and Miscellany 8
(March 1834): 511-524.
8. Lt. Reynolds. 'On the Thugs.' The New Monthly Magazine 38 (1833):
277-287.
9. E. Thornton. Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs and
Notices of Some of the Proceedings of the Government of India for the
Suppression of the Crime of Thuggee. London: W.H. Allen, 1837.
10. 'The Thugs; or, Secret Murderers of India', Review of Ramaseeana, by
W.H. Sleeman, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal 64 (January 1837):
357-395.
11. Review of Ramaseeana, by W.H. Sleeman, The Foreign Quarterly Review 21
(April 1838): 1-32.
12. F. Hollick. Murder Made Moral; or, An Account of the Thugs, and Other
Secret Murderers of India. Manchester: A. Heywood, 1840.
13. Edward P. Eddrup. The Thugs; or, Secret Murderers of India. London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1853.
14. John William Kaye. The Administration of the East India Company.
London: Richard Bentley, 1853. 2nd ed.
15. Selections from the Records of the Government of India (Foreign
Department). No XXIV. Calcutta: John Gray, 'Calcutta Gazette' Office, 1858.
16. Charles Hervey. Report on the Crime of Thuggee by Means of Poisons in
British Territory for the Years 1864, 1865, and 1866. Delhi: General
Superintendent's Office Press, 1868.
17. E.J. Gunthorpe. Notes on the Criminal Tribes Residing In, or
Frequenting the Bombay Presidency, Berar, and the Central Provinces.
Bombay: Times of India Steam Press, 1882.
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