Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India

Essays in Honour of Peter Robb

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh, Upal Chakrabarti, USA) Rashkow, Ezra (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Montclair State University, Montclair

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-28
Mått138 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor338
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367277888

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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