Indian Traffic
Title | Indian Traffic PDF eBook |
Author | Parama Roy |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2023-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520917685 |
The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources—religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films—making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for "western" or "westernized" subjects, but across a range of identities. For example, Roy considers the Englishman's fascination with "going native," an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, Gandhi's impersonation of femininity, and a Muslim actress's emulation of a Hindu/Indian mother goddess. Familiar works by Richard Burton and Kipling are given fresh treatment, as are topics such as the "muscular Hinduism" of Swami Vivekananda. Indian Traffic demonstrates that questions of originality and impersonation are in the forefront of both the colonial and the nationalist discourses of South Asia and are central to the conceptual identity of South Asian postcolonial theory itself.
Indian Traffic
Title | Indian Traffic PDF eBook |
Author | Parama Roy |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 1998-09-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520204875 |
"Fresh and insightful. . . . Roy introduces readers and literary critics to nonliterary examples including religious mentoring and discipleship, public figures, and Bombay movie stars and their films. This is the most exciting and interesting book I have read in the field for some time."—Caren Kaplan, author of Questions of Travel
Indian Road Transport
Title | Indian Road Transport PDF eBook |
Author | Shanker Keshav Modak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Roads |
ISBN |
Sessional Papers
Title | Sessional Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 980 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Indian Engineering
Title | Indian Engineering PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Doyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Engineering |
ISBN |
A Comprehensive History of India
Title | A Comprehensive History of India PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Beveridge |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 734 |
Release | 2023-03-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3382161613 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal
Title | Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 666 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Finance |
ISBN |