India and the British Empire
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 102.50
-
46 278 Ft (44 075 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 4 627 Ft off)
- Discounted price 41 651 Ft (39 668 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
46 278 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 October 2012
- ISBN 9780199259885
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 241x168x26 mm
- Weight 728 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map and 8 black and white images 0
Categories
Short description:
Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.
MoreLong description:
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 imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but also illuminating the economic, political, environmental, social, cultural, ideological, and intellectual contexts which informed, and were in turn informed by, these interactions. Particular attention is paid to a cluster of binary oppositions that have hitherto framed South Asian history, namely colonizer/colonized, imperialism/nationalism, and modernity/tradition, and how new analytical frameworks are emerging which enable us to think beyond the constraints imposed by these binaries. Closer attention to regional dynamics as well as to wider global forces has enriched our understanding of the history of South Asia within a wider imperial matrix. Previous impressions of all-powerful imperialism, with the capacity to reshape all before it, for good or ill, are rejected in favour of a much more nuanced image of imperialism in India that acknowledges the impact as well as the intentions of colonialism, but within a much more complicated historical landscape where other processes are at work.
The fact that many of the contributors to this book are highly regarded, well-established scholars of Britain's occupation of India immediately guarantees the book's importance for other scholars in the field. It does not fail to deliver, because many of the essays provide original arguments thoroughly taking account of the strengths and weaknesses of the past thirty years of historical scholarship ... India and the British Empire therefore makes a valuable contribution to the field of its title by presenting up-to-date assessments of the wide variety of scholarly approaches used to understand the impact of India's period of British occupation on both the occupied and the occupier
Table of Contents:
Introduction
State, Power, and Colonialism
The Indian Economy and the British Empire
Knowledge Formation in Colonial India
Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Class, Caste, and Religious Community
Nationalisms in India
Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule
Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India
Environment and Ecology under British Rule
Material and Visual Culture of British India
Literary Modernity in South Asia
Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times
The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism
The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia
