Fringes of Empire
People, Places, and Spaces in Colonial India
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 6 August 2009
- ISBN 9780198060314
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 216x140x20 mm
- Weight 438 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Focusing on people, places, and time periods at the margins of the British empire, this volume documents how 'fringes' were powerful and productive spaces with complex and contradictory opportunities and outcomes.
MoreLong description:
The interdisciplinary collection offers a new and innovative perspective on the history of British rule in India. Focusing on people, places, and time periods at the margins of the empire, the authors take up the 'fringe' as theoretical site, geographical location, and social position to explore how those positioned at empire's boundaries had the greatest freedom for initiative and innovation. It was there that the colonial state also faced the greatest challenges to its control and
authority. While exploring these themes from a variety of regional and temporal perspectives, this volume documents how fringes of the empire were powerful and productive spaces with complex and contradictory opportunities and outcomes.
In contrast to the conventional chronologies, territorial expanses, and imperial personages which have dominated the story of British conquest of India, this book emphasizes the importance of different times, places and people-the European poor, Indian lunatics, pirates, soldiers, convicts, linguists, and frontiersmen-and positions these intra-colonial fringes as sites for reframing the larger imperial picture.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Nicholas Dirks; Introduction by Elizabeth Kolsky
PART I BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES:
. From the Fringes of History: Tracing the Roots of the English East India Company-State by Philip J. Stern;
'Tracing Lines upon the Unknown Areas of the Earth': Reflections on Frederick Jackson Turner and the Indo-Tibetan Frontier by Alex McKay;
Inventing a Frontier: Imperial Motives and Sub-imperialism on British India's North-West Frontier, 1889-1898 by Sameetah Agha;
A Hindu Kingdom on the Colonial Periphery: Forging State Legitimacy in Late-nineteenth Century Kashmir by Mridu Rai; PART II OUTSIDERS AND INSIDERS:
Contexts, Representation, and the Colonized Convict: Maulana Thanesari in the Andaman Islands by Satadru Sen;
'Weel About and Turn About and do jis so, Eb'ry Time I Weel about and Jump Jim Crow': Dancing on the Margins of the Indian Ocean by Clare Anderson;
Psychiatry on the Edge? Vagrants, Families and Colonial Asylums in India, 1857-1900 by James Mills;
. 'The More this Foul Case is Stirred, the More Offensive it Becomes': Imperial Authority, Victorian Sentimentality, and the Court Martial of Colonel Crawley, 1862-1864 by Douglas Peers;
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