The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination

The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination

Author
John Marriott
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Language
English
Year
2018
Page
256
ISBN
9781526137838
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.1 MiB

This Is A Detailed Study Of The Various Ways In Which London And India Were Imaginatively Constructed By British Observers During The Nineteenth Century. This Process Took Place Within A Unified Field Of Knowledge That Brought Together Travel And Evangelical Accounts To Exert A Formative Influence On The Creation Of London And India For The Domestic Reading Public. Their Distinct Narratives, Rhetoric And Chronologies Forged Homologies Between Representations Of The Metropolitan Poor And Colonial Subjects – Those Constituencies That Were Seen As The Most Threatening To Imperial Progress. Thus The Poor And Particular Sections Of The Indian Population Were Inscribed Within Discourses Of Western Civilization As Regressive And Inferior Peoples. Over Time These Discourses Increasingly Promoted Notions Of Overt And Rigid Racial Hierarchies, Of Which A Legacy Still Remains. Drawing Upon Cultural And Intellectual History This Comparative Study Seeks To Rethink The Location Of The Poor And India Within The Nineteenth-century Imagination. Introduction: Metropolis And India -- 1. The Antinomies Of Progress -- 2. Desarts Of Africa Or Arabia -- 3. The Intimate Connexion -- 4. A Complete Cyclopaedia -- 5. So Immense An Empire -- 6. In Darkest England -- 7. The Great Museum Of Races -- Conclusion -- Index. John Marriott. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available In Print Form. Electronic Reproduction. Manchester, Uk: Manchester University Press, 2013, 2012. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. System Requirements: Web Browser. Access May Be Restricted To Users At Subscribing Institutions. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.

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