Ideologies of the Raj
Title | Ideologies of the Raj PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas R. Metcalf |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1997-02-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521589376 |
Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised qualities of enduring 'difference'. In the end, however, the differences predominated in the colonial view of India. Since the British constructed few explicit ideologies of empire, the author explores the workings of the Raj through the study of its underlying assumptions as revealed in policies and writings. Students of modern India and the British Empire will find Thomas Metcalf's book relevant and accessible.
Before the Raj
Title | Before the Raj PDF eBook |
Author | James Mulholland |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421439611 |
Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India -- A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Newspapers and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India -- The Vagrant Muse: Fashioning Reputation across Eurasia -- Undoing Britain in Bengal -- Tristram Shandy in Bombay -- Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767-1799 -- Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, Java, 1771-1816.
Ideologies of the Raj
Title | Ideologies of the Raj PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas R. Metcalf |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1997-02-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521589376 |
Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India. He demonstrates that the principles the British devised incorporated contradictory visions of India, yet together they made the authority of the Raj lawful. Students of modern India and the British Empire will find this book relevant and accessible.
Raj
Title | Raj PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence James |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2000-08-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780312263829 |
From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.
Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922
Title | Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922 PDF eBook |
Author | Partha Mitter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521443548 |
Partha Mitter's book is a pioneering study of the history of modern art on the Indian subcontinent from 1850 to 1922. The author tells the story of Indian art during the Raj, set against the interplay of colonialism and nationalism. The work addresses the tensions and contradictions that attended the advent of European naturalism in India, as part of the imperial design for the westernisation of the elite, and traces the artistic evolution from unquestioning westernisation to the construction of Hindu national identity. Through a wide range of literary and pictorial sources, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India balances the study of colonial cultural institutions and networks with the ideologies of the nationalist and intellectual movements which followed. The result is a book of immense significance, both in the context of South Asian history and in the wider context of art history.
Imperial Connections
Title | Imperial Connections PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas R. Metcalf |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520258051 |
"Imperial Connections challenges the Eurocentrism implicit in many accounts of modern European empires. Focusing on the British empire when it was at its zenith, Metcalf analyzes the pivotal role the Raj played in the running of the empire in regions as far flung from one another as, say, Egypt, Uganda, Natal, and the Malay peninsula. This innovative book is a real tour de force from a respected and versatile historian of India."—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference "As he has done regularly throughout his career, Thomas Metcalf has once again refreshed the study of British imperial history with a bold new perspective. Imperial Connections puts South Asians—soldiers, policemen and labourers—right at the heart of his study."—C.A. Bayly, Cambridge University, author of The Birth of the Modern World "This is a distinctly original study which re-centers colonial power in provocative ways. Metcalf asks a simple question—why were Indians so persistently to be found elsewhere in the British empire, and in such significant numbers? Then elegantly offers answers that force us to re-think the operations of imperial power in critical ways. Wide-ranging, elegantly written, and meticulously researched, Metcalf's is an important and a persuasive study."—Philippa Levine, author of Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, and forthcoming, The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset
Ornamentalism
Title | Ornamentalism PDF eBook |
Author | David Cannadine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780195157949 |
Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.