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India and the British Empire

Edited past Douglas 1000. Peers and Nandini Gooptu

Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series

• Engages with new ways of thinking well-nigh the history of Bharat and the British Empire
• Breaks down the traditional binaries of Indian historiography and focuses on forces at work at both micro and macro levels to provide a more nuanced history of the period
• Each chapter is written by a leading specialist in the field

Clarification

South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking nigh the imperial impact and legacy on Southern asia, but also helping to reshape the written report of imperial history in full general.

The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating non merely the complicated coaction betwixt imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but too illuminating the economic, political, environmental, social, cultural, ideological, and intellectual contexts which informed, and were in turn informed by, these interactions. Particular attending is paid to a cluster of binary oppositions that have hitherto framed South Asian history, namely colonizer/colonized, imperialism/nationalism, and modernity/tradition, and how new analytical frameworks are emerging which enable u.s. to recollect beyond the constraints imposed by these binaries. Closer attention to regional dynamics besides every bit to wider global forces has enriched our understanding of the history of South Asia within a wider imperial matrix. Previous impressions of all-powerful imperialism, with the capacity to reshape all before it, for good or ill, are rejected in favour of a much more nuanced paradigm of imperialism in India that acknowledges the impact as well as the intentions of colonialism, but within a much more complicated historical mural where other processes are at work.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Douglas K. Peers and Nandini Gooptu
2. State, Power, and Colonialism, Douglas Thou. Peers
3. The Indian Economy and the British Empire, David Washbrook
iv. Knowledge Formation in Colonial India, Norbert Peabody
5. Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Form, Caste, and Religious Customs, Rosalind O'Hanlon
6. Nationalisms in India, Sumit Sarkar
7. Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule, Sandra Den Otter
eight. Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India, Marking Harrison
9. Surroundings and Ecology under British Dominion, Mahesh Rangarajan
10. Material and Visual Civilization of British India, Christopher Pinney
xi. Literary Modernity in Southern asia, Javed Majeed
12. Gendering of Public and Individual Selves in Colonial Times, Tanika Sarkar
13. The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism, Vijay Prashad
14. The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia, Nandini Gooptu

Author Information

Douglas Peers is currently Professor of History and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo, having previously held positions at York University, the University of Calgary, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is the writer of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison Land in Early-Nineteenth Century India (1995), Republic of india Under Colonial Rule, 1700-1885 (2006), and has published more than twenty articles and chapters on the intellectual, political, medical, and cultural dimensions of nineteenth-century Republic of india in such journals equally the Social History of Medicine, Modern Asian Studies, The Historical Periodical, Periodical of Imperial and Commonwealth History, International History Review, Radical History Review and Periodical of World History.

Nandini Gooptu is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. She teaches history and politics at the Department of International Evolution, the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and the Department of Politics, University of Oxford. Educated in Calcutta and at Cambridge, and trained as a social historian, she is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early-Twentieth Century India (2001). While Dr Gooptu's past research has been on colonial India, her current enquiry is concerned with social and political transformation in gimmicky India. She has published manufactures on a variety of subjects, including caste, religion and spiritualism in politics; urban evolution and politics; poverty, labour, and piece of work.

Contributors:

Nandini Gooptu, Oxford University
Mark Harrison, Oxford University
Javed Majeed, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Douglas M. Peers, University of Waterloo, Canada
Norbert Peabody, University of Cambridge
Christopher Pinney, University Higher London, Academy of London
Vijay Prashad, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Rosalind O'Hanlon, Oxford University
Sandra Den Otter, Queen's Academy
Mahesh Rangarajan, University of Delhi
Sumit Sarkar, University of Delhi
Tanika Sarkar, University of Delhi
David Washbrook, Cambridge University

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