Author: lady Maria NugentPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A journal from the year 1811 till the year 1815, including a voyage to and residence in India
Author: lady Maria NugentA Journal from the Year 1811 Till the Year 1815
Author: Lady Maria NugentPublisher:
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Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A Journal from the Year 1811 Till the Year 1815, Including a Voyage to and Residence in India, with a Tour to the North-Western Parts of the British Possessions in that Country, Under the Bengal Government, Etc. [With a Portrait.]
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Author: Lady Maria NugentRepresenting Calcutta
Author: Swati ChattopadhyayPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415343596
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Buccaneers
Author: Arthur Henry Cooper-PrichardPublisher:
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Category : Buccaneers
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific
Author: Julia MartínezPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350056731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region.
Forgotten Voices of the British Empire
Author: Carol Ann BoshierPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538159899
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information. It focuses on heterogeneous voices on the periphery, who interacted with the indigenous population to produce knowledge in original or unexpected ways that extended beyond the limits prescribed by the term ‘colonial.’ Largely unrecognized today, their endeavors to satisfy their own intellectual curiosity, or improve their material circumstances, produced a perspective on colonial life that stripped away conventions; where their ordinary everyday experiences sometimes became extraordinary, as they forged new networks throughout the subcontinent and beyond its frontiers. Their journeys and experiences offer a discursive historical construct as significant as official reports, censuses, and surveys, and contribute towards our understanding of the diverse creative processes through which intellectual histories of the colonial state were constructed.
Sisters in the Mirror
Author: Elora ShehabuddinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520402308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
"A must read."—CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 "Holds up a mirror to the unifying, braided futures underlying so-called 'Western' and 'Muslim' feminism that are both undermined by the power of capital, the world trade order, and cynical geopolitics."—2023 Association for Asian Studies Coomaraswamy Book Prize A crystal-clear account of the entangled history of Western and Muslim feminisms. Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim societies. Muslim women, like other women around the world, have been engaged in their own struggles for generations: as individuals and in groups that include but also extend beyond their religious identity and religious practices. The modern and globally enmeshed Muslim world they navigate has often been at the weaker end of disparities of wealth and power, of processes of colonization and policies of war, economic sanctions, and Western feminist outreach. Importantly, Muslims have long constructed their own ideas about women’s and men’s lives in the West, with implications for how they articulate their feminist dreams for their own societies. Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in women’s lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected wider changes in national and global politics and economics. Muslim women, like non-Muslim women in various colonized societies and non-white and poor women in the West, have found themselves having to negotiate their demands for rights within other forms of struggle—for national independence or against occupation, racism, and economic inequality. Through stories of both well-known and relatively unknown figures, Shehabuddin recounts instances of conflict alongside those of empathy, collaboration, and solidarity across this extended period. Sisters in the Mirror is organized around stories of encounters between women and men from South Asia, Britain, and the United States that led them, as if they were looking in a mirror, to pause and reconsider norms in their own society, including cherished ideas about women’s roles and rights. These intertwined stories confirm that nowhere, in either Western or Muslim societies, has material change in girls’ and women’s lives come easily or without protracted struggle.
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913
Author: Mary Ellis GibsonPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821419420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Gibson (English and gender studies, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro) collects and introduces the works of 34 poets writing in English in colonial India from 1780 to 1913 (the long 19th century). The majority of poets are, unsurprisingly, of British origin, but the works of a number of native Indian poets are included as well, Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore perhaps the most notable of them. Gibson includes notes on vocabulary and historical and cultural references and includes biographical introductions for the poets. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).