Rövid leírás:
Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.
Hosszú leírás:
South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general.
The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but also illuminating the economic, political, environmental, social, cultural, ideological, and intellectual contexts which informed, and were in turn informed by, these interactions. Particular attention 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 us to think beyond the constraints imposed by these binaries. Closer attention to regional dynamics as well as 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 image of imperialism in India that acknowledges the impact as well as the intentions of colonialism, but within a much more complicated historical landscape where other processes are at work.
… this compilation provides a good introduction to the areas covered, as well as offering an interesting and challenging interpretation of the areas that should interest scholars already working in the field … Overall, this is an interesting and valuable contribution to the field of Empire and Indian history
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction
State, Power, and Colonialism
The Indian Economy and the British Empire
Knowledge Formation in Colonial India
Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Class, Caste, and Religious Community
Nationalisms in India
Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule
Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India, c.1750-1820
Environment and Ecology under British Rule
Material and Visual Culture of British India
Literary Modernity in South Asia
Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times
The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism
The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia
