The Raj
A Journey through Ten Documents
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 May 2023
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9789354355554
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 220x140x30 mm
- Weight 620 g
- Language English 458
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Long description:
This is a cultural history of the British Empire in India presented through ten key non-literary texts. Each of these texts embodies a particular attitude, ideology and/or development in imperial thinking, administrative process or cultural practices, and it is this attitude, ideology and development that the book unpacks through a reading of the texts, along with excerpts from the original documents.
ï¿1⁄2The aim is to flag and signpost momentous events and ideas through imperial texts such as J.Z. Holwell's 1756 account of the Black Hole of Calcutta, T.B. Macaulay's 1835 'Minute' on Indian education and Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner's 1888 advice book on colonial domesticity, ï¿1⁄2The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook.
ï¿1⁄2Through this book, it is hoped, the reader will get a flavour and glimpse of the complex and complicated structure that was the Raj. ï¿1⁄2The book will appeal not only to the academic audience and literary scholars keen on the rhetoric of empire but also to the general, informed readers.
Table of Contents:
Prefatory Note
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Imperial Business
Charter Granted by Queen Elizabeth, to the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading Into the East Indies, Dated the 31st December, in the 43rd Year of Her Reign, Anno Domini, 1600.
2. Imperial Prospecting
Robert Boyle, 'Inquiries for Suratte and Other Parts of the East-Indies', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 2. 23 (1666-1667): 415-419.
3. Imperial Vulnerability
J.Z. Holwell, A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others, Who Were Suffocated in the Black-Hole in Fort William, in Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal; in the Night Succeeding the 20th Day of June, 1756, 1758.
4. Imperial Cartography
James Rennell, Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan, 1788.
5. Imperial Eyewitnessing
Joseph Wilson, 'The Custom of Women Burning Themselves With Their Husbands', 1788.
6. Imperial Literary
William Jones, Sacontalï¿1⁄2 or The Fatal Ring, 1789.
7. Imperial Education
T.B. Macaulay, 'Minute [on Indian Education]', 2 February 1835.
8. Imperial Control
W.H. Sleeman, Thugs or, Phansigars of India, 1839.
9. Imperial Domesticity
Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner, The Complete Indian Housekeeper & Cook, 1888.
10. Imperial Ethnography
Herbert Risley, The People of India, 1908.
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