The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination, Edition 11
Jul 2013 · Studies in Imperialism Book 50 · Manchester University Press
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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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
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 influenc...
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John Marriott is Reader in History at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, and Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre
John Marriott is Reader in History at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, and Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre
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