Author: lady Maria NugentPublisher:
ISBN:
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.
Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Katrina O'LoughlinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107088526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A wide-ranging exploration of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women's contribution to processes of cultural change.
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.
Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire
Author: Anna WinterbottomPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228019877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Elizabeth Gwillim (1763–1807) and her sister Mary Symonds (1772–1854) produced over two hundred watercolours depicting birds, fish, flowers, people, and landscapes around Madras (now Chennai). The sisters’ detailed letters fill four large volumes in the British Library; their artwork is in the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection of McGill University Library in Canada and in the South Asia Collection in Britain. The first book about their work and lives, Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire asks what these materials reveal about nature, society, and environment in early nineteenth-century South India. Gwillim and Symonds left for India in 1801, following the appointment of Elizabeth’s husband, Henry Gwillim, to the Supreme Court of Madras. Their paintings document, on one hand, the rapidly expanding colonial city of Madras and its population and, on the other, the natural environment and wildlife of the city. Gwillim’s paintings of birds are remarkable for their detail, naturalism, and accuracy. In their studies of natural history, Gwillim and Symonds relied on the expertise of Indian bird-catchers, fishermen, physicians, artists, and translators, contributing to a unique intersection of European and Asian natural knowledge. The sisters’ extensive correspondence demonstrates how women shaped networks of trade and scholarship through exchanges of plants, books, textiles, and foods. In Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire an interdisciplinary group of scholars use the paintings and writings of Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds to explore natural history, the changing environment, colonialism, and women’s lives at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Indian Angles
Author: Mary Ellis GibsonPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821443585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
A new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial India—writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities. Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by nonelite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of English-language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing on contemporary postcolonial theory, her work also provides new ways of thinking about British internal colonialism as its results were exported to South Asia. In lucid and accessible prose, Gibson presents a new theoretical approach to colonial and postcolonial literatures.
The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905
Author: Maire ni FhlathuinPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000743705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.
The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905 Vol 1
Author: Maire ni FhlathuinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100074891X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.