Author: Mrs. E. F. ChapmanPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Sketches of Some Distinguished Indian Women
Author: Mrs. E. F. ChapmanPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians
Author: William Ferguson Beatson LauriePublisher:
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Category : Anglo-Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians
Author: William Ferguson Beatson LauriePublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120613058
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A nostalgic journey down the aisles of the British Raj which recounts the life and careers of some known and lesser known Englishmen. The people mentioned were in service about the 1850 s. This book is a reprint of the 1888 edition.
In Another Country
Author: Priya JoshiPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231500904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.
On the Word of a Jew
Author: Nina CaputoPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253037417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Fourteen essays examining the dynamics of trust and mistrust in Jewish history from biblical times to today. What, if anything, does religion have to do with how reliable we perceive one another to be? When and how did religious difference matter in the past when it came to trusting the word of another? In today’s world, we take for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to acting or engaging in the public realm, but this was not always the case. The essays in this volume look at how and when Jews were recognized as reliable and trustworthy in the areas of jurisprudence, medicine, politics, academia, culture, business, and finance. As they explore issues of trust and mistrust, the authors reveal how caricatures of Jews move through religious, political, and legal systems. While the volume is framed as an exploration of Jewish and Christian relations, it grapples with perceptions of Jews and Jewishness from the biblical period to today, from the Middle East to North America, and in Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. Taken together these essays reflect on the mechanics of trust, and sometimes mistrust, in everyday interactions involving Jews. “Highly readable and compelling, this volume marks a broadly significant contribution to Jewish studies through the underexplored dynamic of trust.” —Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, author of Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia “An exemplary compendium on how to engage with a major concept—trust—while providing load of gripping new information, new theorization of otherwise well-covered material, and meticulous attention to textual and sociological sources.” —Gil Anidjar, author of Blood: A Critique of Christianity
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893
Author: Royal Asiatic society of Great Britain and Ireland, London. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Rule Britannia
Author: Deirdre DavidPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad. Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire—such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire.
A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (about 50,000) in Every Department of Science, Art & Literature, with the Dates of the First & Last Editions, & the Price, Size & Publisher's Name of Each Book
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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At the Heart of the Empire
Author: Antoinette BurtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520919459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners—all prominent, educated Indians—represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" metropolitan society and offer revealing glimpses of what it was like to be a colonial subject in fin-de-siècle Britain. Burton's innovative interpretation of the travelers' testimonies shatters the myth of Britain's insularity from its own construction of empire and shows that it was instead a terrain open to continual contest and refiguration. Burton's three subjects felt the influence of imperial power keenly during even the most everyday encounters in Britain. Pandita Ramabai arrived in London in 1883 seeking a medical education and left in 1886, having resisted the Anglican Church's attempts to make her an evangelical missionary. Cornelia Sorabji went to Oxford to study law and became the first Indian woman to be called to the Bar. Behramji Malabari sought help for his Indian reform projects in England, and subjected London to colonial scrutiny in the process. Their experiences form the basis of this wide-ranging, clearly written, and imaginative investigation of diasporic movement in the colonial metropolis.