Pramod K Nayar

The Raj

A Journey Through Ten Documents

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a cultural history of the British Empire in India presented through ten key non-literary texts. Each of these texts embodies a particular attitude, ideology and/or development in imperial thinking, administrative process or cultural practices, and it is this attitude, ideology and development that the book unpacks through a reading of the texts, along with excerpts from the original documents. The aim is to flag and signpost momentous events and ideas through imperial texts such as J.Z. Holwell's 1756 account of the Black Hole of Calcutta, T.B. Macaulay's 1835 'Minute' on Indian education and Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner's 1888 advice book on colonial domesticity, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook. Through this book, it is hoped, the reader will get a flavour and glimpse of the complex and complicated structure that was the Raj. The book will appeal not only to the academic audience and literary scholars keen on the rhetoric of empire but also to the general, informed readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9789354355554
• ISBN-10: 9354355552
• Artikelnr.: 68070865

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India, and is also Distinguished Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. His most recent books include Vulnerable Earth (2024), Nuclear Cultures (2023) Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2021), Ecoprecarity (2019), Bhopal's Ecological Gothic (2017), and others. His essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, South Asian Review, South Asia, Narrative, Celebrity Studies, Asiatic, Prose Studies, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Biography, among others. Nayar also holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory Note
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Imperial Business
Charter Granted by Queen Elizabeth, to the Governor and Company of
Merchants of London, Trading Into the East Indies, Dated the 31st December,
in the 43rd Year of Her Reign, Anno Domini, 1600.
2. Imperial Prospecting
Robert Boyle, 'Inquiries for Suratte and Other Parts of the East-Indies',
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 2. 23 (1666-1667): 415-419.
3. Imperial Vulnerability
J.Z. Holwell, A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English
Gentlemen, and Others, Who Were Suffocated in the Black-Hole in Fort
William, in Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal; in the Night Succeeding the
20th Day of June, 1756, 1758.
4. Imperial Cartography
James Rennell, Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan, 1788.
5. Imperial Eyewitnessing
Joseph Wilson, 'The Custom of Women Burning Themselves With Their
Husbands', 1788.
6. Imperial Literary
William Jones, Sacontalá or The Fatal Ring, 1789.
7. Imperial Education
T.B. Macaulay, 'Minute [on Indian Education]', 2 February 1835.
8. Imperial Control
W.H. Sleeman, Thugs or, Phansigars of India, 1839.
9. Imperial Domesticity
Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner, The Complete Indian Housekeeper &
Cook, 1888.
10. Imperial Ethnography
Herbert Risley, The People of India, 1908.
Bibliography
About the Author