The other empire : metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination

The other empire metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination

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This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Marriott, John, 1944- Author (author)
Formato: Capítulo de libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2013, 2012.
Edición:MSI edition
Colección:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Materias:
Urban poor > England > London > History > 19th century.
Social change > England > London > History > 19th century.
Urban poor > India > History > 19th century.
Social change > India > History > 19th century.
Imperialism > History > 19th century.
Humanities.
History.
Colonialism & Imperialism.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
Asian history > Colonialism & imperialism > Indian sub-continent.
London (England) > Social conditions.
India > Social conditions.
india
empire
british
colonial
London
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Sumario:This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects—those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time, these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, the legacy of which remains to this day.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
First published: 2003.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Also available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781847795397
9781526137838
9781781700341
9781280734052
9786610734054
9781847790613
9781423706335

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