Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India, Abraham

Автор: Padamsee, Alex
Название: Representations of indian muslims in british colonial discourse
ISBN: 1403992304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403992307
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society.

Автор: Carton
Название: Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India
ISBN: 0415504295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415504294
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender and citizenship across empires.

Автор: Dass Manishita
Название: Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India
ISBN: 0199394393 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199394395
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Outside the Lettered City traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early 20th century India, focusing on their preoccupation with the mass public made visible by the cinema and with the cinema`s role as a public sphere and a mass medium of modernity.

Автор: Guha, Ranajit
Название: Dominance without Hegemony - History & Power in Colonial India (OIP) (Paper)
ISBN: 0674214838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674214835
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from the metropolitan bourgeois state which sired it. The metropolitan state was hegemonic in character, and its claim to dominance was based on a power relation in which persuasion outweighed coercion. Conversely, the colonial state was non-hegemonic, and in its structure of dominance coercion was paramount.

Indeed, the originality of the South Asian colonial state lay precisely in this difference: a historical paradox, it was an autocracy set up and sustained in the East by the foremost democracy of the Western world. It was not possible for that non-hegemonic state to assimilate the civil society of the colonized to itself. Thus the colonial state, as Guha defines it in this work, was a paradox,a dominance without hegemony.

Dominance without hegemony had a nationalist aspect as well. This arose from a structural split between the elite and subaltern domains of politics, and the consequent failure of the Indian bourgeoisie to integrate vast areas of the life and consciousness of the people into an alternative hegemony. That predicament is discussed in terms of the nationalist project of anticipating power by mobilizing the masses and producing an alternative historiography.

In both endeavours the elite claimed to speak for the people constituted as a nation and sought to challenge the pretensions of an alien regime to represent the colonized. A rivalry between an aspirant to power and its incumbent, t is was in essence a contest for hegemony.

Автор: Hayden J. A. Bellenoit
Название: The Formation of the Colonial State in India
ISBN: 0415704472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415704472
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Описание: In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in shaping the early patterns of British colonial rule.This book offers a new way of interpreting the colonial state’s origins in north India. It examines how the formation of early agrarian revenue settlements exacerbated an extant late Mughal taxation tradition, and how the success of British power was shaped by this extant paper-oriented revenue culture. It goes on to examine how the service and cultural histories of various Hindu scribal communities fit within broader changes in political administration, taxation, patterns of governance and a shared Indo-Islamic administrative culture. The author argues that British power after the late eighteenth century came as much through bureaucratic mastery, paper and taxes as it did through military force and commercial ruthlessness. The book draws upon private family papers, interviews and Persian sources to demonstrate how the fortunes of scribes changed between empires, and the important role they played at the height of the British Raj by 1900.Offering a detailed account of how agrarian wealth provided the bedrock of the colonial state’s later patterns of administration, this book is a unique and refreshing contribution to studies in South Asian History, Governance and Imperialism.

Автор: Belliappa Jyothsna
Название: Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India
ISBN: 0230300189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230300187
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.