Routledge handbook of the history of colonialism in South Asia
Introduction: The history of colonialism in South Asia : cutting out paths through the historiographical jungle -- Part I. Overarching themes and debates. Caste in British India : between continuity and colonial construction, and beyond -- The political economy of colonialism in India -- State forma...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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London New York, NY
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
2022
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| Series: | Routledge handbooks
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9780429431012 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429431012 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Maria Framke |
| Summary: | Introduction: The history of colonialism in South Asia : cutting out paths through the historiographical jungle -- Part I. Overarching themes and debates. Caste in British India : between continuity and colonial construction, and beyond -- The political economy of colonialism in India -- State formation in India : from the company state to the late colonial state -- Nationalism and their discontents in colonial India -- Reordering religion in colonial South Asia -- Reconstituting masculinities/femininities : modern experiences -- Contested history : the rise of communalism and the partition of British India -- The Ra's uncanny other : indirect rule and the princely states -- Part II. The world of economy and labour. The emergence of a 'modern' urban-industrial workforce in India, 1860-1914 -- Military labour markets in colonial India from the company state to the Second World War -- Merchants, moneylenders, karkhanedars, and the emergence of the informal sector -- Indian big business under the company and the Raj -- Revenue extraction in colonial South Asia -- Part III. Creating and keeping order : science, race, religion, law, and education. The science and medicine of colonial India -- Race in colonial South Asia : science and the law -- 'A race apart'? The European community in colonial India -- Christian missionary agendas in colonial India -- Penal law, penology, and prisons in colonial India -- Terrorism and counter-terrorism in colonial India -- Schooling the subcontinent : state, space, and society, and the dynamics of education in colonial South Asia -- Part IV. Environment and space. Of lives and landscapes : the environmental history of colonial South Asia -- Questioning 'railway-centrism' : infrastructural governance and cultures of the colonial transport system, 1760s-1900s -- Colonial port cities and the infrastructure of empire : tracing the geography of alcohol in British colonial India -- Site of deficiency and the site of hope : the village in colonial South Asia -- Imperial sanctuaries : the hill stations of colonial South Asia -- The agrarian history of colonial South Asia -- Part V. Culture, media and the everyday. Physical culture and the body in colonial India, c. 1800-1947 -- Before Bollywood : Bombay cinema and the rise of the film industry in late colonial India -- Rhythms of the Raj : music in colonial South Asia -- Consumer practices and 'consumerism' in late colonial India -- Food and intoxicants in British India -- Languages, literatures, and the public sphere -- Emotions, senses, and the perception of the self -- Part VI. Colonial South Asia in the world. Women, migration, and travel from colonial India -- Debates on citizenship in colonial South Asia and global political thought (c.1880-1950) -- South Asia and South Asians in the worldwide web of anti-colonial solidarity -- Disruptive entanglements : South Asia and South Asians in the world wars -- Indian humanitarianism under colonial rule : imperial loyalty, national self-assertion, and anti-colonial emancipation -- Famine relief in colonial South Asia, 1858-1947 : regional and global perspectives. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9780429774706 9780429431012 9780429774690 9780429774683 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9780429431012 |