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Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb book cover

1st Edition

Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India Essays in Honour of Peter Robb

Edited By Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh, Upal Chakrabarti Copyright 2018
338 Pages
by Routledge India

364 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

364 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to rethink entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. This volume reevaluates central, long-standing debates about the historical impact of the British Raj by deviating... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Contributors

Foreword by Clive Dewey

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART 1 Memory and Identity

I Colonial Memory

1. Memory, Place and British Memorials in Early Calcutta: Peter Robb's Lecture Transcript Peter Robb

II Colonial Identities

2. On the Political History of Britishness in India: Lord Cornwallis and the Early Demise of Creole India Claude Markovits

3. Religion and Race: Eurasians in Colonial India Valerie Anderson

III Textual Representations of Memory and Identity

4. Texts of Liminality: Reading Identity in Dalit Autobiographies from Bengal Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

5. Paradoxes of Victimhood: Dalit Women’s Bodies as Polluted and Suffering in Colonial North India Charu Gupta

IV Sites of Memory and Identity Formation

6. Sites of Memory and Structures of Power in North India: Anandamath and Hanumangarhi William R. Pinch

7. Dispossessing Memory: Adivasi Oral Histories from the Margins of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, Central India Ezra Rashkow

PART 2 Colonial Encounters

I Encounters with Regional Governance

8. Heroinism and Its Weapons: Women Power Brokers in Early Modern Bhopal Richard B. Barnett

9. Changing Horses: The Administration of Sikkim, 1888-1918 Alex McKay

II Encounters with Surveillance and Resistance

10. Lost in Transit? Railway Crimes and the Regime of Control in Colonial India Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

11. From London to Calcutta: The ‘Bolshevik’ Outsider and Imperial Surveillance, 1917-21 Suchetana Chattopadhyay

III Encounters and ‘Improvement’

12. Competition or Collaboration? Importers of Salt, the East India Company, and the Salt Market in Eastern India, c. 1780–1836 Sayako Kanda

13. Challenging the 3Rs: Kindergarten Experiments in Colonial Madras Avril A. Powell

14. Scientific Knowledge and Practices of Green-Manuring in Bengal Presidency, 1905-1925 Sanjukta Ghosh

Appendix: Major Publications by Peter Robb

Index

Biography

Ezra Rashkow is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Montclair State University, USA.

Sanjukta Ghosh is Research Associate at the South Asia Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.

Upal Chakrabarti is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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