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  • Specters of Mother India

    The Global Restructuring of an Empire

    Series series Radical Perspectives
    Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India

    Edited by Mrinalini Sinha, Manu Goswami ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
    This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within ... Read more

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  • Colonial masculinity

    The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century

    Series Book 24 - Studies in Imperialism
    This book is about the processes and practices through which two differently positioned elites, among the colonisers and the colonised, were constituted respectively as the 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali'. It argues that the emerging dynamics between colonial and nationalist politics in the 1880s and 1890s in India is best captured in the logic of colonial masculinity. The figures ... Read more

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    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between ... Read more

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  • Islanded

    Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

    A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka.How did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy. This advance saw the fall of the last foothold of kingly rule, centered in the highlands of the island. ... Read more

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  • Burdens of History

    British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

    In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of ... Read more

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  • Gendered Citizenship

    Historical and Conceptual Explorations

    by Anupama Roy ...
    Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community ... Read more

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  • Masks of Conquest

    Literary Study and British Rule in India

    A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no ... Read more

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  • India's Power Elite

    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... Read more

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  • Enslaved Daughters

    Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights

    This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband. This lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic ... Read more

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  • The Phoenix Moment

    Challenges Confronting the Indian Left

    by Praful Bidwai ...
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  • Castes of Mind

    Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

    When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic ... Read more

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