Colonial Voices C - Nayar, Pramod K.
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This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of Britishimperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrativethrough a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibitioncatalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these textshelped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even asthey helped the English fashion themselves.
An engaging examination of European colonizers'representations of native populations Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range ofprimary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues,administrative reports, and…mehr

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This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of Britishimperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrativethrough a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibitioncatalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these textshelped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even asthey helped the English fashion themselves.

An engaging examination of European colonizers'representations of native populations
Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range ofprimary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues,administrative reports, and travelogues
Surveys 400 years of India's history, from the 16thcentury to the end of the British Empire
Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial andcultural differences between the English and the Indians, andcontrolled anxieties over these differences
Autorenporträt
Pramod K. Nayar is a member of the English Faculty at the University of Hyderabad, India. He has been Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, the Charles Wallace India Trust-British Council Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Fulbright Senior Fellow at Cornell University. His many publications include States of Sentiment: Exploring the Cultures of Emotion (2011), An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (2010), Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics (2008), and Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012). Forthcoming is a book on new media.